I heard the quote today:
"Frequently wrong, never in doubt,"
in an unrelated Big Think story (quoting Gary Marcus), and I thought...
That's a perfect single statement to sum up why I am so critical of round-robin status-reporting meetings. They're a pageant of progress -- but they too often are expensive (boring) meetings, rarely with actual return-on-time-invested.
Here's a quick rough draft about what I recommend instead, via my low-fi Notion: