[Fripplebubby]

The concept of "decision meetings" is a really tricky one to master. I think:

Good: Put a meeting on a calendar in the future in order to force all discussion and investigation to happen before that meeting and keep things moving.

Bad: Adding a "decision meeting" doesn't make a decision any easier or harder than before, and doesn't make the research and investigation take any less time than before, and often we don't know what we don't know, so beginning research leads to more research...

I think it is really useful for making decisions that people just don't care that much about and aren't that invested in, since it motivates a timeline for those decisions. Otherwise, it just creates an arbitrary deadline. Why are you working late on a Friday night? Oh, well, my manager created this deadline on Monday morning to make this decision.

[cratermoon]

The article doesn't mention the problem of people not preparing for a meeting. It's possible to follow all the author's suggestions about meetings and still end up wasting time because people show up unprepared. Someone doesn't read the agenda or doesn't know or understand the desired outcome or decision to be made. If that is a pattern for someone, they not only are under-performing, they are hurting the performance of everyone involved.