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Meetings
The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
Law of Triviality
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Meetings
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Dave Barry
(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Activities
People
Sex
Masturbation
Meetings
Organizations
Meetings are a great trap; however, they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist
Work
Meetings
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
Gourd's Axiom
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Meetings
The only important result of a meeting is agreement about next steps.
Wolf's Law of Meetings
Murphy’s Laws
Meetings
A meeting lasts at least 1 1/2 hours, however short the agenda.
Parson's Third Law
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Agendas
Meetings
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.
Dave Barry
(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Intelligence
People
Human race
Meetings
He who shouts loudest has the floor.
Swipple's Rule of Order
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
Meetings
Shouting
The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Shanahan's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Meetings
Those who are unable to learn from past meetings are condemned to repeat them.
McKernan's Maxim
Murphy’s Laws
Meetings
The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the agenda for that meeting.
McLaughlin's Law (see Parson's Third Law)
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Meetings
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor
Football
Sports
Meetings
Violence
If you have enough meetings over a long enough period of time, the meetings become more important than the problem the meetings were intended to solve.
Hendrickson’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
(E. R. Hendrickson)
Meetings
The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
Kirkland's Law
Murphy’s Laws
People
Situations
Attendance
Meetings
Usefullness
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
Parker's Rule of Parliamentary Procedure
Murphy’s Laws
Meetings
Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.
Ashleigh Brilliant
(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Places
Problems
Meetings