Never turn up with a blank page

Often the first approach to a problem is to “just get in a room to work it out”. But does this ever really work? Or is it just an inefficient way to do work by committee. The most fruitful and effective meetings are those where someone takes ownership for that meeting. Someone has to put their hand up in the first instance to take the lead and have the first crack to avoid the group pondering what should be on the blank page.