# Under-prepared Meetings

DevFeed: [Under-prepared Meetings](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/under-prepared-meetings-36482.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/meetings/>)

Published: 2018-05-29T17:13:46Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [meetings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/meetings.md>), [Agile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agile.md>)

Tags: [advice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advice.md>), [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [meetings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/meetings.md>)

## AI overview

An opinion article about poorly prepared meetings, arguing that inadequate preparation wastes participants' time and can lead to underinformed, low-quality decisions.

## Source excerpt

Ahhh.. meetings. The one old school company thing that survives in this agile, open-office, 'remote first', nomadic worker world. And it is easy to see why: the 'meeting' is the last guaranteed way to get everyone to pay attention for an hour, or at least, pretend to. It still is rare for people to fake attending two meetings at the same time in any case. The late great Andrew S. Grove, long time CEO of Intel and overall hero engineer, wrote the massively important book High Output Management.