The Endless Meeting

We’ve all sat in one—the kind of meeting that feels like time has stopped. The agenda is vague, the purpose unclear, and the air is thick with words that sound important but mean very little. Buzzwords fly around the room like confetti: synergy, pivot, alignment, innovation. The longer it goes, the more you wonder if anyone actually knows why you’re there. It’s not a meeting; it’s noise with a calendar invite. I remember one meeting that stretched past two hours without a single decision being made. The conversation circled endlessly, like a carousel that nobody knew how to stop. People nodded, took notes, and offered comments, but at the end, there was no clarity about what we were actually supposed to do next. Everyone left drained, not directed. The cost of these endless meetings is higher than most leaders realize. Time spent in noise is time stolen from action. Every