Are Your Meetings for You or for Them?

“To meet” is such an ordinary phrase. It carries the weight of human history. To meet: to come together, to connect, to discover what happens in the space between us. It implies reciprocity, exchange, even surprise.

But most organizational meetings today betray that intent. Instead of meeting, we gather. Instead of conversation, we sit through download. Instead of exchange, we endure updates. Meetings too often feel like they belong to one person—the leader who called them, the supervisor who controls the agenda, the speaker who dominates the time. If that is the case, then they aren’t meetings at all. They’re performances of authority masquerading as collaboration.

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