Meetings about Meetings

My company is at an interesting stage in its growth. It's really exciting. But we do tend to have lots of meetings about meetings. That is, we sit around and talk about the things we'll need to do via another meeting that is or will be scheduled in the near future.

This is clearly not the best scenario and at times is downright laughable. But...what's a better way? Status meetings are a way of life in corporate America, especially in an Agile world. Or are they?

Here We Go Again...

I'm trying to start blogging again. We've started an initiative at work to build a corporate blog, about which I am very excited, but I realized that I needed to drink some Kool-Aid and get back to blogging.

Here's a question: what did people do in the elevator before smartphones? It seems to be completely Pavlovian...the elevator doors close, and people flip open their smartphones. I was in the elevator with our CEO yesterday and we both did this at the same time. Clearly this means I'm upper management material, but what else does it say about our society that it's so commonplace?