Getting Real: Chapter 7

Top Five Reasons Why I Don’t Agree On “Meetings Are Toxic”

1. Meetings happen for a reason, either someone screwed up or someone is ABOUT to screw up
2. Meetings DO NOT take much preparation unlike what the author stated that is why Casual or Informal Meetings came about — along with those expensive Starbucks coffee and those cheap and nasty cafeteria food.
3. Breaking your work day into small, incoherent pieces DO NOT disrupt the natural work flow instead, it bullets what needs to be done. It reminds us that we have a job and we get paid for it. Hello! We need a constant reminder of that.
   
4. Meetings can waste the time of one BUT it speeds up the process for everyone by allowing an open conversation about the current development of the project for suggestions, corrections, demands, and requests. It also cuts the cost by preventing CONSTANT mistakes that might happen if meetings are not properly done. Alone time is good but too much alone time is similar to a boy left with his Legos — creating too many possible structures then realizing it doesn’t make sense.
5. Meetings, not trying to be a party pooper, does help with or without a clear agenda because it allows exchange of ideas, information, processes, and even techniques. Preparing meeting agendas DOES NOT always serve its purpose.
   

It’s just my opinion and from the way I saw and experienced it. You guys might think otherwise but we all have our own VOICE right? So all you can do now is not attack me brutally with all my opposed point of view, rather, sit down and take it like a baby — oh don’t cry on me now.

Ciao!