Posted March 21, 2011 at 12:00 am
I don't think the Big Boss means what Kane thinks he means.
It is terribly frustrating to spend all day in meetings about productivity when the actual productive thing to do would be to just do the damn work. But sometimes I feel like bosses use meetings to justify their existence. I can count on one hand the number of meetings where actual important, useful, critical information was communicated at my workplace last year. Part of me thinks that there must be something wrong with the human condition. None of us like meetings or think they're at all useful and yet we constantly create organizations that thrive on meetings as if they were lifeblood. There must be something secretly inside humans that yearns to sit in a room and stare blankly on as some self-important executive bloviates about absolutely nothing. I mean, why else would we do this shit to ourselves?
