Actual meetings are never that simple. And the very best (theoretically possible) meetings are about one thing. And short. Best manager I ever had insisted on a stand-up meeting every single morning. Everybody got 30 seconds to say what they did yesterday and planned for today. No questions, no elucidation, no diversions. The only acceptable comments were either “Oh, good” or equivalent, or something like “Please find me before lunch to talk about that.”
Actual meetings are never that simple. And the very best (theoretically possible) meetings are about one thing. And short. Best manager I ever had insisted on a stand-up meeting every single morning. Everybody got 30 seconds to say what they did yesterday and planned for today. No questions, no elucidation, no diversions. The only acceptable comments were either “Oh, good” or equivalent, or something like “Please find me before lunch to talk about that.”