The morning meeting. Each day for years, it's been a fixture at the office, though. So each day, everybody troops in, sits down, hunkers around the table and longs for the meeting to be over. The odd thing about such meetings is how firmly they take on lives of their own.
Management tends to like meetings because they're the forum in which most managers' work is done.
Talk to us about the good ones, the bad ones and everything in between. The easiest way to make meetings a little less unpleasant is to end early. Everyone will love you for it. But you need to look at the problem from a wider standpoint than that, of course. The big thing is to match the purpose of the meeting to the length of the meeting, the place and the time.