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Subject:Re: More meeting madness From:"Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com> To:"Downing, David" <david -dot- downing -at- fiserv -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:49:06 -0800 (PST)
Surely the convenor/chair of a meeting has the authority and the right to
pause the meeting to allow anyone who is not wedded to the current
digression to leave the meeting......
--Guy K. Haas
longtime chair/president/bureaucrat of various organizations
On Tue, March 3, 2009 12:41 pm, Downing, David wrote:
> I was in another one of those meeting today where the discussion went
> off the track, and since it was my meeting, I would have been within my
> rights to forcibly drag it back on track - except for one thing. We had
> already covered everything we needed to cover. If it had been someone
> else's meeting, I would have left - but would it be weird to walk out of
> your own meeting?
>
> David Downing
> Senior Technical Writer
> Credit Union Solutions
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