[bostik]

Decisions get agreed upon in meetings.

The actual decisions have been made in the days, weeks, sometimes months leading up to the meeting. And the amount of human input going into them can vary from very little to gargantuan.

I believe there is even a saying that before an important meeting takes place the people required to attend it will hold one or more unofficial meetings to make up their minds about the topics on the important agenda.

[skmurphy]

I find the definition of a decision as "the irrevocable commitment of resources" to be very useful. Plans may be made in advance of a meeting but until resources are committed and behavior/processes changes there may be a pronouncement but no decision.