The main reason we don't make meetings more productive is that we don't value our time properly.The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking about time as their most valuable resource.But time is the most perishable good in the world.You can't earn an extra hour to use on a busy day.Nonetheless,we usually have a vague feeling that there is plenty of time-somewhere in the future-so we waste it now and carelessly steal time from our families,friends or ourselves.