This week, I spent 70% of my time in different meetings - in-house, business, social and professional. My friends ask me how can I manage my time to attend all meetings. Actually I don’t attend all meetings. I know, I can not. I always choose the meetings to attend. I have some criteria attending meetings. If I get invitations for meetings without agenda and I am not even briefed about the meeting, I am not much interested.

In meetings you may have two roles - host or participant. Either you are host or the participant, in meetings you have to be innovative and capable to promptly analyze the issues. Otherwise, meetings will slowly kill your valuable time. I can’t sit and just kill my time in long and pointless meetings. I think people should be concise and precise because people always have many other better things they could be doing with their time otherwise. I hate the meetings even with the agenda, when the agenda is long and people speak in length just trying to make their presence noticed. Meetings, like all other serious matters, require a certain sense of urgency and always move forward drawing the decisions and understandings.

I hate the meetings when people just sit around tired, drinking coffee after coffee and trying to keep going on one issue and always spending quite a lot time around that. Either you are host or the participant, you should try to be precise and try to put your decisive opinion forward. Don’t try to confuse the participants. Just don’t drag the meeting longer. Give the
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