Good meetings I’ve participated in: informational (“this is what’s going to go down”), bug triage (“Must we fix X? How hard is it to fix X? How many customers want the X fix yesterday?”), renumeration calibration (“how does your 2.5/3 compare to their 2.85/3?”), offensive/defensive brainstorming (“how can we get ahead, catch up in the marketplace?”), come-to-Jesus (“we freeze in 6 weeks, will X be ready?”).<p>Bad meetings I’ve struggled through: status, meeting prep, non-relevant training (“just give everybody the same talk.”), corporate rah-rah (“look how well sales in region 5 went.”), gathering to avoid emails.<p>In short, if I know something you need to know or if you know something I need to know or there is a problem we both can help solve or “the shit just hit the fan”, or “how do we keep the shit from hitting the fan”…. These can be good and useful meetings. Anything else is spending a lot of people-time in performance art.