On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:39:21 +0000, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

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I grow increasingly exasperated by those who only seem able to work on
the phone/face to face. Meetings are usually a great big waste of time,
and usually exist only to stroke the ego of whoever arranged the
meeting. I've been doing "meetings" more than thirty years. I really
can't recall any that produced results worth having or that hadn't
already been decided long before the meeting was convened.


My boss in Houston, faced with nearly everybody being unavailable "in
a meeting" nearly all the time put a stop to it by the simple
expedient of saying :

"You can have all the meetings you want, as long as you do it properly
and book a meeting room in advance through my secretary".

Problem over.

DG