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[Sylvano]

On Fri, February 6, 2009 10:22 am, Roger Clarke wrote:
> But corporates and government agencies are locked into a belief that
> meetings are important.  And they have never yet grasped the point
> that standing committees are better than sitting ones - because
> participants have a built-in motive to get on with the business.

You reminded me of an ex-boss that would stand during any telephone call
received or made, as it "encourages brevity, focus and urgency."

Anyway, I am sure you can allow me a little latitude when I say in
slightly OTT terms that the only meetings in the corporate world I noticed
having any real impact tended to be for the most primal of reasons;
metaphorically speaking, the organiser needed to kill the enemy and gain
territory.

Oh, and a vote in support for "sitting" from Linus Torvalds in a quote I'm
sure many might recall reading once before:

 source-> http://hhg.to/weblog/34

"... I long ago decided I will never go to meetings again because I think
face to face meetings are the biggest waste of time you can ever have. ...
a lot of the time the real work gets done by people sitting, especially in
programming, alone in front of their computers doing what they do best."



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