It’s great to get lots of people together in a room to collaborate on a document that needs writing, I personally feel it can really speed up the editing and approval process, see review cycles and the death of productivity, however this doesn’t mean we should through common sense out of the window.
The more people you bring into a room, the more opinions you will have gathered together on each subject and as such this will have an exponential impact on the amount of time spent off topic and exploring various “rabbit holes” in detail. If you’re in such a meeting whether you are chairing or not, you have a responsibility to stop this and keep things on track if only for your own sanity and time management.
Even if it’s your own particular fetish, don’t indulge! If something is off topic state it as such and suggest picking it up outside the meeting at a later date. At the end of the day everyone will thank you for keeping things on track.
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