A 2 hour meeting to figure-out "How to eradicate poverty in India"

Management, realistically speaking, is trying to break bigger problems into smaller-manageable-problems (that’s it). This is very common: people who don’t manage a meeting-discussion well don’t know what is a manageable-problem or how to break a problem.

Therefore, if your meeting went haywire, most probably, you did not do a lot of things that you were supposed to do; but, the most common mistake (I’ve seen in meetings) is that the host  discusses an unreasonably-big-problem in a unreasonable-short-timeframe.

Something like this: trying to figure-out how to eradicate poverty in India, in 2 hours. <Please, you need a (straight) 2 year meeting to figure that out> So, a 2 hour meeting-discussion will be effective only if you break this huge problem into a really-really-really-really small problem, and then take that small problem to the meeting-discussion.