>>>Hmmmmm indeed. I am getting to disagree with the thread title.
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>>Just curious Dragan, in your meetings, are you the only one who meanders and do you consistently meander? :o)
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>You'd be surprised. It's not me who causes the distractions, at least not most of them :). And I'm also among the conscious guys who sees that "um, this isn't as simple as it first seemed - do this on Friday meeting?" - IOW, I'm trying to keep my part short. Unless it's really important, then I press on.
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>What do you think how did self-management work? Meetings, meetings, meetings. It was a system where anyone could participate in pretty much any decision making process - at workplace, local community or various other segments of life. How so? Because there were too many of those places, and they couldn't get enough people to take part in all of them :). So, we all had to become, to some extent, professional meeting attenders. Which then surprised me when I came here - I thought it was OUR meetings which were too frequent, too long, too much under the influence of professional disputants or professional meeting organizers (who wouldn't know how to do their job, but know how to organize a meeting about it)... and then I saw what a bunch of amateurs we were.


I was joking of course, but your insights are very interesting. I'm going to ask some friends of mine this weekend who I usually meet. They are from a variety of different countries. It's not something we've discussed before so I'm interested to find out if their view is similar to yours. Given the debate tonight, I imagine most of the discussion will be politics and the financial disaster. They all can sit around chewing the fat for hours and hours. It's actually quite enjoyable :o)