Do You Hate Meetings?

Let’s have a meeting, review all the varied options and delay making any touch decisions by scheduling another meeting. There always seems to be someone at a meeting who can present an issue which retards the making of a decision, notwithstanding how critically  important the need for a decision might be. The highest purpose of a meeting is to make decisions on a course of conduct with everyone in attendance then being both on board and informed. If any meeting is to succeed in this purpose, its attendees need to know when to hold them and when to fold them. (Long term planning, brand definition, underlying business philosophy are all worthy of discussion among a group, but lets call that  brainstorming whose purpose is to get all the possible cards on the table. Then we can have the “meeting” to decide which cards we keep.) 

What percentage of your meetings end with the only real decision being an the need to appoint a sub committee to gather additional input to be presented at the next meeting?

At what percentage of the meetings you attend are decisions made regarding the announced purpose of the meeting?