Activities for Boring Meetings (2012)

Just give them the usual response. If you can't prove it with empirical evidence and there's a mountain of rational counterarguments, it's likely not the panacea you think it is.

The only reason business is invulnerable to logic, is because business holds the reins. Not because their methods are actively shown to be the great.

During a particularly bad period at one company I worked for in the 80s, a coworker declared that there would be points awarded for each reference made to the Titanic during the upcoming project meeting.

He sat quietly making notes during the meeting, while we all tried to work in "lurking beneath the surface", "steaming ahead regardless" and "only 10% of the issues are visible above the waterline".

As the meeting went on the quality got worse. It was quite clear that something was going on, when suddenly he stood up and announced the scores. Even awarding one of the managers points for mentioning Belfast.

Thank you. I really wish C2 reverted their modern web functionality change

who gets to decide that though?

managers are fine burning ICs time if they can better communicate to their bosses later

IC work becomes progressively less important as they’re more mangers

Are you serious? Nobody finds it interesting. The people who organize meetings have to do them for various reasons, like a kick-of meeting for starting a project etc. Sometimes meetings are useful, many times they are not, but the organizers rarely care about them being interesting - they just have no other choice so they just go on with their presentation or whatever and finally we can get back to real work.

Fortunately I WFH most of the time so I spend the meetings on a bike, they are a pleasure to participate.

Missing? cf 8