Meetings
Anyone ever notice there's two kinds of people?
The first kind of person has a job which does not really involve accomplishing anything, just sort of organizing stuff and making sure that other people accomplish stuff. Basically a manager.
The second kind of person is responsible for actually accomplishing stuff. They're the ones that the manager-types depend on.
Now, if you're a manager, chances are you spend a lot of time in meetings. And since you spend so much of your time in meetings, it is less likely to occur to you that all that time you spend dragging out meetings by discussing off-topic bullshit is prolonging the meeting, and thus taking away time from the people who are actually accomplishing stuff - or who would be if they were not stuck in said meeting.
One of the toughest things to do is sit in a meeting with your boss and keep them on target.
Take today for example. We've got to go through the bugs in the bug tracking system. Great, and a laudable goal. The problem comes about when the people there want to solve the bugs in the meeting that's supposed to decide which bugs to solve in the next two weeks. That's when you spend an hour and a half going over fifty or so items. Yay.
Looks like we'll be back to 8.6% efficiency again if this keeps up.
The first kind of person has a job which does not really involve accomplishing anything, just sort of organizing stuff and making sure that other people accomplish stuff. Basically a manager.
The second kind of person is responsible for actually accomplishing stuff. They're the ones that the manager-types depend on.
Now, if you're a manager, chances are you spend a lot of time in meetings. And since you spend so much of your time in meetings, it is less likely to occur to you that all that time you spend dragging out meetings by discussing off-topic bullshit is prolonging the meeting, and thus taking away time from the people who are actually accomplishing stuff - or who would be if they were not stuck in said meeting.
One of the toughest things to do is sit in a meeting with your boss and keep them on target.
Take today for example. We've got to go through the bugs in the bug tracking system. Great, and a laudable goal. The problem comes about when the people there want to solve the bugs in the meeting that's supposed to decide which bugs to solve in the next two weeks. That's when you spend an hour and a half going over fifty or so items. Yay.
Looks like we'll be back to 8.6% efficiency again if this keeps up.