Always keep your meetings real
The definition of insanity, as they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Following that logic, that means that just about anybody who runs (or participates in) work meetings is nuts. Ergo and therefore, I say, we may as well be honest about what we expect from these gatherings. That way we can at least salvage a little dignity — along with a few winks — out of these things.
