We seriously just had a 45-minute meeting… to decide whether to have another meeting. No action items, no clear next steps, just a bunch of people vaguely agreeing that “we should regroup.” And now guess who’s supposed to send the follow-up summary of what, exactly? How do you handle meetings that seem designed to waste time, but you’re still the one expected to make sense of them?

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They usually go in with the best of intentions, only for an hour to pass, and nothing of note happens. It’s really up to the meeting host to fix this. You make the notes of follow-up at a later date to xyz.

To many meeting and no work gets done and no one reviews what was said or what they implement because they talked so much everyone tuned out. Meetings should not be that boring. It's like listening to the clear eyes man or the teacher from Charlie Brown. Meetings should be fun and intuitive.

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