[Livia]

Meetings are a notorious waste of time and I think you hardly ever achieve what you set out to achieve. There's always at least one person there who loves the sound of their own voice and drones on and on and bloody on... I find that the only way to survive them with your sanity intact is to make sure whoever's chairing the meeting controls it. When I'm in the chair I give everyone a set time to say what they need to say.