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A daily meeting to discuss project progress

As in...
'...from 8am on Monday we will be holding morning prayers in meeting room 1 to run a few things up the flagpole, discuss our learnings and make sure we are all on the same page. Please bring cakes to show how enthusiastic you are'

A daily meeting to discuss project progress

As in...
'...from 8am on Monday we will be holding morning prayers in meeting room 1 to run a few things up the flagpole, discuss our learnings and make sure we are all on the same page. Please bring cakes to show how enthusiastic you are'

When someone is in a boring meeting and falls asleep sitting. Their head bobbles up and down as they catch themselves falling asleep. It looks as if they are in fact riding a bronco

As in...
He spoke for forty-five minutes and had everyone riding the bronco.

Where a meeting is starting to deviate from the set agenda and warrants another follow up meeting to discuss further (thus getting back on set agenda)

As in...
Ok thats a great point but I think we should take this conversation offline and arrange a follow up meeting to discuss futher.

an impromptu meeting, a quick chat or an informal talk with a colleague

As in...
"Hey Dave. After lunch, can you stop by my office for a fireside?"

To arrange a mutually convenient meeting or appointment and record it in each participants respective diary.

As in...
yes, a meeting on this subject would be useful, lets diarise.

Or

Jim and I have diarised, we are meeting next Monday at 2.

Used to describe dates when important meetings should occur in the future.

As in...
Jim: "Hey Edgar, can you put some key beats in the calendar? Get a cadence going and stick to our roadmap"

To lead or take the initiative to make something happen

As in...
Steve is going to go ahead and facilitate a meeting between Donna and Joe. Aside from the obvious connections, Donna really likes her agency partners to be bald and well hung. It's a win-win.

A hostile meeting orchestrated by an incompetent management to interrogate project leads in front of high level executives. Assumes a theatrical-like spectacle atmosphere with lots of righteous indignation. The purpose is for incompetent management pass the blame on to their workers rather than accept responsibility for their own failings.

As in...
After the project went red and failed 3 consecutive corrective action plans to return to green, management called the Project Leads into a Come To Jesus meeting in front of the Executive Big Shots where they basically called all the programmers a bunch of lazy morons despite the fact that management had been pulling them off and retasking them to work on other things for the last 5 months.

Usually a polite way of brushing you off because the topic you are discussing is unimportant to who you're presenting it to.

You will find that if you actually do follow through and schedule the meeitng it will be cancelled last minute due to other "Pressing issues"

If you don't schedule the meeting you will be dinged on performance. "I thought I told you to schedule a meeting for this issue?"

Best bets: Schedule the meeting, when it's cancelled don't reschedule it and let your concerns die.

As in...
Yes, you bring up some good points on safety in the company. Schedule a meeting so we can discuss it further

In mafia terms, a sit-down. A last ditch effort meeting in order to get everyone on the same page no matter what.

As in...
She said that? Oh, man, I guess I'll have to have a come to jesus meeting with her and get her straightened out.

In mafia terms, a sit-down. A last ditch effort meeting in order to get everyone on the same page no matter what.

As in...
She said that? Oh, man, I guess I'll have to have a come to jesus meeting with her and get her straightened out.

a meeting everyone is required to attend

As in...
I would rather stab my eye with a pencil than attend the meeting tomorrow, but unfortunately it is an all hands meeting.

a meeting everyone is required to attend

As in...
I would rather stab my eye with a pencil than attend the meeting tomorrow, but unfortunately it is an all hands meeting.

a definitive cut off to a meeting or phone call for a certain person, usually communicated while the meeting or call is already in progress

As in...
Team, just want to let you know that I have a hard stop at 11:15. Can we please discuss the outstanding action items so we can circle back at 5?

To continue a conversation at another time with a subset of a particular group, usually because an issue that was surfaced does not pertain to the entire group

As in...
Gary, this is an outstanding proposal. I have a couple of questions around the "college binge drinking" facebook widget and the information it will syndicate, but let's take it offline and figure it out after the meeting.

End of Day: (1) The time when your boss, team, or the company is most likely to ask you to do something they forgot needed to be done; (2) When you are most likely to get something you need for your piece of a project from someone else; (3) When you are most likely to get something dropped on your lap, which you need to run up the flag pole, yet everyone else is already home, enjoying their evening, and it is due "first thing tomorrow".

As in...
William (timestamp of email: 5:59:01.344455): Giligan, I need you to complete that Opp Buildout on the Scorpions Widget for our meeting first thing tomorrow. I know you're going to do a great job for us, and I'm counting on you. Giligan: Isn't that meeting at 9:00AM? William: Yes. Yes it is. See you bright and early. I've got a free MSN dinner to go to... Louis XIII shots... Nobu... you know. Peace.