meetings

Call meetings when the features unique to meetings are needed - body language, 100% attention and instant response, etc.

But we shouldn't assume that no meetings is better than good meetings.

We don't need 100% asynchronous collaboration, but meetings should be treated as a last resort, not a first step.

Then he would try and set up meetings where he would have to present his idea to the clients.

On even-numbered days people accuse companies like Microsoft of not having enough meetings and safeguards.

The problem with meetings is that they are often interminable, with too little accomplished.

He hates meetings because they pull him out of his theory sessions with himself.

The main thesis, buried in the paper, is that meetings steal the spotlight away from the one individual who's smarter than everyone else.

I think www.seats2meet.com (located at the central station) is THE place for meetings like this in Utrecht.

They do things like ask outside counsels to attend on-site meetings in person.

Now local Android meetings sometimes have dozens, if not hundreds of attendees.

Literally shouted down people who have raised these issues at council meetings.

"But in a series of classified meetings, officials have struggled to choose among options that range from......" Apparently the meetings weren't really all _that_ classified.

"It's just like all the people who idolize Steve Jobs and try to run their business like him..." And I bet that Jobs, like most executives, spent most of his days in meetings rather than thinking alone in his office.