Board meetings Quote by Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost

— Hussein Nishah

A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.

— James T Kirk

“Effective board meetings encourage active participation from all board members, fostering a culture of open communication and respectful debate.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

— Milton Berle

COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Each team member takes thirty seconds to report on their progress.”

— Daniel H. Pink

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

— Fred Wilson

If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Make sure meetings have clear goals, not just agendas, and ensure the goals are met. 4.”

— David H. Maister

The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

— Patrick Lencioni