Unfortunately, the company I was at at that time, had a couple of boss type guys at those meetings who, if nobody had anything worthwhile to talk about, would fill the time and the air with useless babbling, and the meetings would go an hour regardless.

>>This is brilliant stuff, Grady. It reminds me very much of a John Cleese video called "Meetings, Bloody Meetings", and a company I once worked for where everything was done exactly as the video said it shouldn't.
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>>We actually did have the 'Monday morning meetings' come hell or high water - whether anybody had anything to talk about or not. But at least we got donuts.
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>While I was a homo duplex (i.e. both the co-owner and my own worker in a software company), we had Monday morning meetings... which lasted no more than an hour or so. But we had enough common sense to cut them to five minutes if there were no pressing matters.