One of the modern equivalents of this is allowing a meeting to eat up the entire time allotted, regardless of the utility. There’s something to be said for longer, lingering discussions when you’re coming up with ideas. But for status updates or decision-driven meetings, it seems like the meeting should always end immediately upon the completion of the agenda.
My anecdotal sense is that a person’s reaction to abruptly ending a meeting depends on their role and bent, similar to pg’s maker vs manager essay [1]. I’ll note that execution driven managers will happily walk out of a now defunct meeting though, so it isn’t strictly “maker vs manager” as much as a sense of “I don’t have something better to do currently”.
In my company it’s very common that people come late to a meeting but it almost always ends right on time, never early. I always get weird looks when I ask “are we done?”.
My anecdotal sense is that a person’s reaction to abruptly ending a meeting depends on their role and bent, similar to pg’s maker vs manager essay [1]. I’ll note that execution driven managers will happily walk out of a now defunct meeting though, so it isn’t strictly “maker vs manager” as much as a sense of “I don’t have something better to do currently”.
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html