Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Some meetings are driven only by the calendar. We meet monthly or weekly or whatever just because a page falls from the calendar on the wall.

I’m going to a meeting tomorrow (or maybe its the day after?). The reason for the meeting?

the calendar

Yes, it is a meeting determined by the calendar. We “have to meet” every month (or is it every week or two weeks or quarter or…?).

Now, I admit that there are meetings that should occur per the calendar. There are monthly budget reviews and monthly project reviews. These, however, or coincidentally ruled by the calendar. For example, a monthly project review occurs every month if the project can careen out of control in one month. If the project can careen out of control in two months and not in one, you hold a project review every two months. The same is the case with a spending plan or budget. If you can mis-spend money in a month that will do irreparable harm to a budget, meet every month to review spending.

Such is not the case for the meeting I am to attend in the near future. It is guided by the calendar and only by the calendar. There is no agenda, no pressing items, no decisions, no … well you get the idea. At least I hope you get the idea as it doesn’t seem that the persons calling for the monthly meeting that I am obliged to attend get the idea – yet.