[tonymet]

Though these guides are well meaning, they completely misread the inadvertent outcome of meetings. Even a perfectly planned meeting has a number of other effects beside resolving the stated agenda.

When and how people are invited and declined, who attends, who engages, how people engage are all signals gleaned from a meeting.

Think of how many times someone felt jilted by not being invited, called on, not responded to -- etc -- during a meeting.

If you consider yourself hyper rational and business focused, you have to account for the personal dynamics occurring before, during & after a meeting.

You ever wonder why everyone "hates" meetings, yet they still invest in them? Even being cynical or dismissive is a form of attention.

Meetings are like money in that people are interested even though they say otherwise.

[blackqueeriroh]

No, people are interested in the outcomes of meetings.

They aren’t interested the meetings themselves.

On the off chance they care deeply about hearing one person’s perspective - there are much better ways to get that.

[Dumblydorr]

Some people get their vitamin people from meetings. They may live alone and not know anyone locally. They may want to feel more personal connection. I don’t usually feel that way myself but sometimes it does help with loneliness oddly enough.

[tonymet]

I would mostly agree , with the caveat that there are more unstated outcomes and they matter as much as the agenda