Meetings Drive Deadlines!
October 28th, 2007I believe that one of the reasons that people generally do not like meetings, or hate meetings is that along with a meeting typically comes some hard deadlines. There is usually more than just a deadline for the speech and slides, but the information being reported in the speech and slides. There’s lots of pressure to get the tasks requested to be completed from the last meeting to be completed by the next meeting so you can report that the task has been completed. Now with the ease and speed of producing or editing a PowerPoint slide, you can work on a task right up to the last minute before the meeting and update the task as completed just in time for the meeting. It’s a grown up version of peer pressure. You have to face the entire group at the meeting and report you success and/or failures. I’d write more, but I have to complete a task or two before my next meeting.