“Set and KEEP to the agenda”
February 3rd, 2010 — 11:57am
I took that right from Jerry Colonna‘s most recent post, Board Meetings that Suck. There’s an entire list of reasons why board meetings (and really, meetings in general) suck, along with a nice list of suggestions to combat the suckiness of these meetings.
The first one in this second list, “Set and KEEP to the agenda”, hit me over the head a few months back. After doing a few meetings, both virtually and in person, I quickly came to realize that it wasn’t my time that mattered, it was the time of those in the meeting that mattered. I needed to get my pitch across to these folks in the time allotted, and according to the agenda I set.