Comment by rectang
2 days ago
There's no substitute for leadership establishing a culture of meeting discipline. By and large, every org will follow the example leadership sets.
If leadership blesses this cutesy little five-minutes-late maneuver, implicitly accepting that meetings don't end on time, then meetings won't end on time at 5 after the hour either.
Some meetings are more important than others. So losing 5 minutes of a useless meeting is better than not going over 5 minutes for the important meeting.
Everyone wants to think their time is valuable, but this is relative.
Only host important meetings.
Cancel useless ones.
Start and end on time.
If the person who runs the meeting can't stick to a schedule, it can't be important.
Any meeting without an agenda is a waste of time.