A disconnect between meetings and the real world
I love meetings. Lots and lots and lots of meetings. Morning meetings are an excellent start in the day since you don't have to start working right away. Same with the end-of-week meetings, the weekend starts earlier - every week. Love it! And there are many more sales meetings, marketing meetings, management meetings, project meetings, motivational meetings. The list goes on. It's also cool because if you have a lot of meetings you can stick out as a real leader by coordinating all the meetings. Of course, you would hold a meeting for that.
Ok, stop the bullshit. Meetings suck! I already posted a cartoon about meetings as the perfect alternative to work. Here I have another one. This cartoon brilliantly shows what happens in most meetings. At the end, everyone in the meeting agrees, a lot of heads are nodded and whoever was leading the meeting does a (long) wrap-up.
Then, without fail, people return to their desks and expound on exactly why nothing in that meeting would actually work. There is just a real disconnect between what happens in meetings and the real world. Ok, to be fair, this is more a corporate culture thing. However, in companies with such a corporate culture - and there are many - it is no wonder that we spent so much time in meetings.
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