Ah, yes. Let’s schedule a meeting.

You know, that one hour block of time we will all lovingly carve out in our day, which despite our best intentions WILL turn into a hairy, two and a half hour beast of random conversations and little to no actual productivity.

While we at FlackRabbit cannot completely solve the mystery of the chia-meeting – we are certainly happy to direct you to a fabulous blog that we feel has a great way of explaining things, in hopes that what they have to say might help you make those meetings more productive and positive for you and your team.

Basically, these folks at 37 Signals believe meetings are evil, but if you are going to have them:

Keep your meetings to one hour, make your agendas specific, solve an actual problem or two, make a plan for solving new problems, assign tasks, and then get the heck out of there.

To this we say, “Amen, brother.”

*Denotes obscure reference to Walt Disney’s The Parent Trap