Communication is essential, and whenever we don’t communicate, things get missed, misassumptions get made, and things go all higglety-pigglety.
That said, not only am I finding that (a) my schedule is getting double- and treble-booked with phonecons on any variety of subjects, project reviews, and the like, but (b) it’s nearly impossible to find in Outlook even a half hour that any given five people have mutually free, and (c) when I do so, invariably one or more folks subsequently have to cancel because of something else that’s come up.
I’d raise this as a discussion point at the weekly management meeting my boss has, but he’s had to call it off for the last six weeks because of his own schedule conflicts …
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Dude, it’s like, time to go TOTALLY asynchronous on those meetings, dude. Like, BLOG your meetings, dude! It’d be RADD!
Seriously, if you blogged a meeting in an 8-hour period with comments back and forth, the agenda could be handled asynchronously. Just set up a closed post and assign each person a login.
Well, we tend to do that to some degree via e-mail, but that still turns out to be a real mess. These are for cases where we actually need the bandwidth that a voice conversation can provide.
That said, there are times when a blog/board would be more efficient than e-mail.