One of the first people I worked for in marketing was a woman named Tracey Woodcock. I was young, smart and full of myself. We worked for a small, very good graphic design studio called Frankfurt Gips Balkind and Tracey made me, and my equally smart and full of themselves workmates, insane.
In my world, 9:30am meetings start at 9:45am. So, like airports, by the time afternoon meetings come around they are all at least 15mins behind and in some cases cancelled all together.