Whatever happened to an agenda?

Heard this 12-year-old woman interviewed about how to improve meetings.  By the way, everyone is now 12 to me -- doctors, lifeguards, dentists..........they're all 12.  She went on about planning them and having something to say......all completely obvious.

But she never mentioned the word "agenda", as in "you have to have one".  I learned how essential they are early in my career, but B is the guy who perfected them for me.  We met when I had to work for him on a conference.  He wasn't my official boss, but he was for that conference.  Every week the the committee met in his boardroom at the PCO after our regular work day had ended and he chaired these meetings with a perfect agenda, from which he allowed no one to deviate.  If someone got off track, he would say, "Let's take that under 'other business'" and usually the ranter would forget about it by the time we got there. 

"Other business, new business, old business"......all designed to keep people on track and make sure a meeting runs smoothly.  The "expert" this morning didn't even mention them or the word "agenda" itself.  It was ridiculous.

Their is a local restaurant we frequent -- the same one where a stranger paid for part of our order -- and their flowers are magnificent.  Captured a few lovely images:

Picked up my wet suit this morning for my big open-water swim, coming up in Invermere this Sunday.  Getting a tad nervous, especially about the mass start where everyone swims over everyone else.  But it will certainly be an experience and create some great blog material.