Brave new steps

I have just come out of a meeting that left me more confused afterward than I was before. This leads me to once again wonder how productive meetings actually are. Are there some meetings whose end result actually amounts to a negative value? You leave it not only knowing less than you thought you did, but also lost as to how to proceed from there. At least, this is the case for my experience today.

If Columbus or Livingston had to deal with the bureaucratic red-tape, endless discussions and reams and reams of 'reporting back', would they have ever taken those first steps that lead to great discovery? Hmmmm.....