Bad meetings are your fault is a great post on Prof. Hacker (Tips & Tutorials for higher ed: productivity & pedagogy in a digital age) sent to me by Stéfan.
I don’t mind meetings, I think it has to do with age and seniority. The older you are the more you like people and the more senior you are, the more you can use meetings to tell others what to do. God probably loves all meetings, that’s why he created the universe – one long meeting he can chair.
Seriously. Meeting can be a great way to keep things moving on projects. People don’t like them because they usually haven’t done what they should have and the meeting will expose that.