Great summary of the different types of meetings from Rands in Repose:
Alignment meetings sound like this: “It’s red, are we all in
agreement it’s red? Ok, swell. Wait, Phil thinks it’s blue. Phil, here
are the 18 compelling reasons it’s red. Convinced? Done now?”
Creation meetings sound like this: “We need more blue. How are we
going to do that? Phil, you’re our blue man. What should we do here?”
There are other meetings out there, but you will learn to avoid
them. One being the therapy meeting. They sound like this: “Show of
hands, who likes to talk about blue? Or red? I don’t care. Let’s
explore our color feelings for the next 60 minutes.”
Very true.