"If oil is $130 a barrel and if security adds two or three hours to a trip and if people are doing more and more business with those far afield...
and if we need to bring together more people from more places when we get together...
and if the alternatives, like video conferencing or threaded online conversations continue to get better and better, then...
I think the standard for a great meeting or a terrific conference has changed."
The above quote is from Seth Godin's latest post. It is one that every pastor and church chair ought to heed. The cost of meetings keep going up. Are we giving those who give up their time and resources a meeting worth attending, a gathering that acutally accomploshes something?
Seth Godin is someone we opught to list to regularly. You can find him at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Monday, May 19, 2008
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I guess one of the questions to answer is "what is the value of face-to-face, back-and-forth meetings?" There are times when I need the nuance of a person's face and body in a meeting that will not come across a screen or conference call. Those would be the strategically important meetings that are worth the resources of travel costs. But how many of those meetings do we have in a year? What is the value of getting folks from California to Green Lake Wisconsin for a long weekend? How would those same dollars be used in Congo?
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