Jamie Notter of of GetMeJamieNotter has posted some great advice for improving team meetings. My favorite among his five suggestions is:

Finish it
Don’t open up the conflict, let everyone get uncomfortable, and then say you’re out of time and we’ll deal with this later. You have to take the conversation through to some kind of closure—even if it is temporary, and it has to be okay with all the parties in the conflict. This means your meeting may not always follow its agenda. Deal with it. It’s easier to deal with an unfinished agenda than the long-term effects of unfinished conflict.

It had never occurred to me before reading this FC Experts post, but the poster may very well be right that “There’s no future in flight if planes have no place to park.” From the post:

Yet that’s exactly the future we face, with 14 U.S. airports and eight metropolitan areas needing new capacity to accommodate anticipated growth in air traffic through 2025. In fact, 15 metro areas will not be able to manage demand by 2025 unless they act now. Places like New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles need to identify better ways to use existing, smaller, or underused airports — and they need to do it fast.