For all their faults, meetings have virtue as a forcing function:
- Forcing you to complete tasks you committed to;
- Forcing you to feed back to the group;
- Forcing awkward-but-necessary conversations;
- Forcing a faster cycle-speed of question-reflection-answer;
- Forcing you to review progress;
- Forcing you to look ahead;
- Forcing answers to questions;
- Forcing you to give a theme your full attention;
- Forcing a visible choice between engagement and having a voice, and switching off and being a passenger.