How to run an effective meeting

• Four components:
  • Why / context;
  • Output: what must be addressed or answered? and when it is, the meeting concludes;
  • Set boundaries: what is out of scope, i.e., not relevant to the why, and will not be discussed in this meeting;
  • Driver: they introduce the why, they enforce the boundaries, and they get us to the output;
• If for a meeting, context is vague or inviting just stream of consciousness and the driver doesn't enforce boundaries then we can't be surprised of hijacking and confusion is often the result.