Meetings, generally speaking, are mainly for middle managers to justify their existence and fill their otherwise fairly pointless days.
If you are the boss, you decide what happens next and ask those who report to you to do it. If you're a worker you do what the boss asks you to and get paid.
If you're a middle manager, you're not really allowed to decide anything, but equally it's beneath you to actually do any work, so you call or attend meetings for something to do between coffee and lunch breaks. If you're really smart, you'll then create a spreadsheet detailing the outcomes of the meetings and send it to your boss to prove you were actually doing something.
The boss will thank you for that but will of course ignore the content of the spreadsheet and decide what should happen next anyway.
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