A lot of meetings I used to go to the balance was between
a) doing something damn stupid that I would have to fix when it inevitably went horribly wrong
and
b) doing something sensible that would actually work
so we ended up witha balance where it only went a bit wrong and I could fix it quite quickly
I learned to not wait for minutes of the meeting (which were often "creative)
and to send an email to my boss and the Chair of the meeting as soon as I got back to the office saying what we really agreed "just to confirm what I needed to be working on"