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This doesn’t really conflict with my point. We already know that bad leaders vastly outnumber good leaders. And there are I’m sure plenty of good leaders who haven’t mastered the specific skill of “meeting management”. Again, the video conference simply peels away all the fluff and reveals the meeting for what it is. The hypothetical “good leader” you bring up can just easily invite the right people to a video conference. Hence if the video conference sucks… it’s probably not because you’re not in a room with these people. Perhaps you will be more distracted in a physical meeting and thus less likely to be sufficiently annoyed to consciously ask “wait, why are we even doing any these meetings?”, but it’s not because the meeting was “better” in any meaningful sense. Especially when you consider the well-known psychological effect of leaving a room blanking your mind.