Just a small personal comment on Seth Godin's blog entry about the three kinds of meeting. I agree on the three meeting types mentioned...

1. Information.
2. Discussion.
3. Permisson.

Very good distinctions ... but I'd like to see one more meeting type on the list:

4. Saying "I'm sorry" and explaining. This meeting occurs after you have taken initiative with the purpose of doing something good for your company, with reasonable risk, without permission - and unfortunately failed. The other party is normally the person(s) that could have said no to your initiative - or worse, have said yes but delayed it indefinitely.

As many bright ideas and initiatives are killed by Dr. Doom types less than 5 minutes after they're born, I suggest to aim for more type 4 meetings than type 3 meeting... no?