Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.