Are All Meetings Necessary?

Yes and No.

Is life just a series of unnecessary meetings? Status meetings could be replaced with an issues meeting and a written status update. Issues meetings could be replaced with people actually identifying and fixing the issues. Management meetings could be replaced with coaching sessions (for the managers). Communication meetings are the only really important meetings because nothing can take the place of face to face communication and building a real trusting relationship with the other person.

Have we become too scared to talk face-to-face, forcing us to use email, text messages, chat and voice mail to communicate?

Use meetings effectively to communicate, build consensus and relationships.