As we battle through the pains of development delays on our world class Smarter Meetings system, we at SmarterMeetings.com have learned a thing or two about patience. The obvious is that patience is a virtue, or at least that’s what we’re told. However, patience without focus is nothing more than waiting around. Every day we get closer to launch with the Smarter Meetings system, and the excitement surely grows, but so too does the patience and practice of ensuring ‘it’s perfect’. Unlike Microsoft, we would rather wait until it’s just right before releasing something flawed to the public. It just makes sense to us to make it right. However, when you are creating complex custom web applications that have to work on everything from FireFox to Internet Explorer, and on every kind of corporate and not-for-profit machine from the latest and the greatest to the oldest and the slowest, you definitely learn the benefits of being patient. Meetings are very similar in many ways. They are a necessity for most any organization in the world, and yet they always seem to take more time and energy that people would like. We believe a lot of that time and energy is misused, but the reality is that meetings require patience, much like any other group endeavor. However, when you factor in personal lives, personal agendas, cultural complexities, and the fact that people don’t always get along in the work place, meetings can be a massive drain on people, teams and organizations everywhere. We’ve all heard the various sayings such as ‘good things come to those who wait’, but much like many things in life, it’s so much easier to say than to do. With modern technological advancements like Google, and the dominant rise of the instant gratification generation, most people may say they’re willing to wait but really it’s the last thing they want to do. As we move closer to ‘GO LIVE!’ with SmarterMeetings.com, patience has been just one of the lessons we’ve had to learn along the way.

As we battle through the pains of development delays on our world class Smarter Meetings system, we at SmarterMeetings.com have learned a thing or two about patience. The obvious is that patience is a virtue, or at least that’s what we’re told. However, patience without focus is nothing more than waiting around.

Every day we get closer to launch with the Smarter Meetings system, and the excitement surely grows, but so too does the patience and practice of ensuring ‘it’s perfect’. Unlike Microsoft, we would rather wait until it’s just right before releasing something flawed to the public. It just makes sense to us to make it right. However, when you are creating complex custom web applications that have to work on everything from FireFox to Internet Explorer, and on every kind of corporate and not-for-profit machine from the latest and the greatest to the oldest and the slowest, you definitely learn the benefits of being patient.

Meetings are very similar in many ways. They are a necessity for most any organization in the world, and yet they always seem to take more time and energy that people would like. We believe a lot of that time and energy is misused, but the reality is that meetings require patience, much like any other group endeavor. However, when you factor in personal lives, personal agendas, cultural complexities, and the fact that people don’t always get along in the work place, meetings can be a massive drain on people, teams and organizations everywhere.

We’ve all heard the various sayings such as ‘good things come to those who wait’, but much like many things in life, it’s so much easier to say than to do. With modern technological advancements like Google, and the dominant rise of the instant gratification generation, most people may say they’re willing to wait but really it’s the last thing they want to do.

As we move closer to ‘GO LIVE!’ with SmarterMeetings.com, patience has been just one of the lessons we’ve had to learn along the way.