I am sure you’d have read many books, articles and blogs on meeting facilitation and management and you’re all experts on this topic. Yours truly has concocted 10 quotes/rules/laws on meetings drawing “inspiration” from various sources – science, literature and even divine. I need your help to distill this down to the ones that really resonate with you. Please list the ones that you like the most and the ones you dislike. Also, feel free to comment or add new ones – I know we need a more positive quotes. Without further ado, here are the 10 rules/quotes/laws of meetings:
#1 It is good to have a meeting with a good facilitator. It is better to have a meeting with prepared participants. It is best not to have the meeting in the first place!
#2 Ignore participants who shout or speak a long time in meetings and you won’t miss much.
#3 Why bother attending a meeting, when someone didn’t bother with an agenda?
#4 I came across a fork, I declined the meeting and that made all the difference.
#5 Meeting that starts on time is likely to end on time. Meeting that doesn’t start on time is not likely to end on time. It is that simple, folks!
#6 Meeting’s success can be measured by its actual duration – the shorter the better.
#7 I went around looking for the bad in other’s meetings, only to realize mine were the worst.
#8 More the mass in the meeting room, less the velocity of the meeting.
#9 What is the purpose in attending a meeting, if the meeting doesn’t have a purpose?
#10 The only time meetings are fun, it is called Sports.