#meeting Meetings are a concession to deficient organization; either you meet or you work. One cannot do both at the same time in an ideally designed structure (which is a changing world, of course only a dream). There would be no meetings. Everybody would know what he needs to know to do his job, and everybody would have the resources available to him to do his job. We meet because people holding different jobs have to cooperate to get a specific task done. We meet because the knowledge and experience needed in a specific situation are not available in one head but have to be pieced together out of the experience and knowledge of several people. Too many meetings signify that work that should be in one job or in one component is spread over several jobs or several components. They signify that responsibility is diffused and that information is not addressed to the people who need it. [[Meetings need to be purposefully directed]] The same logic should be applied to classes as well -- [[No class unless necessary -- why class timetable is a stupid design]]