Remember those days of back-to-back hour-long meetings?

Well, they’re gone, and they won't be coming back— I mean ever.

I’m not saying that we won’t have an occasional 60-minute meeting, but videoconferencing is changing more than where we meet; it’s also changing for how long we meet.

I hate to say, “I told you so” (Ok, I LOVE to say “I told you so”), but I’ve noticed that more and more people are adopting the 15, 25 and 50-minute meeting approach. (Those sacrificed 5 and 10 minutes? They’re for getting things in order before the next meeting. Novel idea, right?)

When you said, “let’s meet”, ten years ago, it meant an hour. Maybe even longer if someone was flying in for the meeting. (Wow, remember flying in for a meeting!?)

Today, we need to be more precise about timings – and there had better be an agenda. No agenda, no meeting.

We no longer take 60-minute meetings with strangers - people we...