Who appreciates meetings that have:

• Gone longer than 30 minutes.
• People speaking just to hear themselves (not get fired).
• Time dedicated to reading memos out loud.
• People IM’ing other attendees.
• People IM’ing non-attendees.
• People checking email.
• No clear objective.

Answer: No one.

The solution?

Standing meetings.

Because having one’s time wasted sucks. But having one’s time wasted while standing is, to most, not acceptable.