![]() ![]() This need for meetings is clearly something more positive than just a legacy from our primitive hunting past. ![]() If there are no meetings in the places where they work, people’s attachment to the organizations they work for will be small, and they will meet in regular formal or informal gatherings in associations, societies, teams, clubs, or pubs when work is over. In every organization and every human culture of which we have record, people come together in small groups at regular and frequent intervals, and in larger “tribal” gatherings from time to time. If this requirement did nothing else, it would at least re-focus the minds of the committee members on their purposes and objectives.īut having said that, and granting that “referring the matter to a committee” can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility, and delaying decisions, I cannot deny that meetings fulfill a deep human need. ![]() ![]() It would probably save no end of managerial time if every committee had to discuss its own dissolution once a year, and put up a case if it felt it should continue for another twelve months. Sometimes five minutes spent with six people separately is more effective and productive than a half-hour meeting with them all together.Ĭertainly a great many meetings waste a great deal of everyone’s time and seem to be held for historical rather than practical reasons many long-established committees are little more than memorials to dead problems. A great many more are resolved by a letter, a memo, a phone call, or a simple conversation between two people. Why have a meeting anyway? Why indeed? A great many important matters are quite satisfactorily conducted by a single individual who consults nobody. ![]()
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