{"id":720,"date":"2009-01-21T06:36:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=720"},"modified":"2009-01-21T06:43:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:43:31","slug":"dreadful-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2009\/01\/dreadful-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreadful Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don Johnson posted something on the <a href=\"http:\/\/jibstay.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/meetings-as-time-waster.html\">dreadful &#8220;meeting.&#8221;<\/a> His prompt was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/18\/jobs\/18pre.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=reid%20hastie&amp;st=cse\">NY Times article<\/a> on the same topic.<\/p>\n<p>Ever hear that joke: <em>We don&#8217;t need a watch for this meeting; We need a calendar. \u00a0?<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2009\/01\/images.jpeg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[720]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-721\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"images\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2009\/01\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As leaders, especially church leaders, we&#8217;d do well to gain some skills in this area. The one who calls a meeting is responsible for the preparation, quality and outcome of the meeting. And if we&#8217;ve given leadership to another, we&#8217;re responsible for that too. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>How are we doing?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=720&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Johnson posted something on the dreadful &#8220;meeting.&#8221; His prompt was a NY Times article on the same topic. Ever hear that joke: We don&#8217;t need a watch for this meeting; We need a calendar. \u00a0? As leaders, especially church leaders, we&#8217;d do well to gain some skills in this area. The one who calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-leadership"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dreadful Meeting - Worship Connect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2009\/01\/dreadful-meeting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dreadful Meeting - Worship Connect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Don Johnson posted something on the dreadful &#8220;meeting.&#8221; His prompt was a NY Times article on the same topic. 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