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How Chat and Youth Are Killing the Meeting

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-riddance-i-say dept.

dominique_cimafranca writes "Forbes columnist Dan Woods describes a change in the way some companies handle meetings. Owing to instant messaging and younger tech-savvy CEOs, meeting time has gone down from as much as 30 hours per week to as little as 2 hours per week. Woods proposes ways to make this 'meetingless' management effective."

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  1. Bravo, Bravissimo by ls671 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > meeting time has gone down from as much as 30 hours per week to as little as 2 hours per week

    Bravo, Bravissimo. Many of us have been aware of time wasted on meetings for quite a while.

    Let's be clear, planning is necessary and some meetings still might be needed. I guess almost everybody knows what I am talking about... ;-))

    I am sure Dilbert hasn't got the monopoly on this topic but here are some links anyway...

    http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-23/

    http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2001-12-15/

    http://www.revold.no/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dilbert_MeetingMadness.jpg

    http://brontesaurus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dilbert-meeting.gif

    http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/30000/1000/900/31967/31967.strip.gif

    http://slcta.net/images/dilbert2007112223221.gif

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  2. Or you could say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...these horrible technologies turn every hour of every day into an eternal meeting.

  3. Justify their Existence by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thirty hours of a forty-hour workweek devoted to meetings? I'm sure managers are getting nervous at the idea you can spend two hours a week on meetings and 38 hours a week getting stuff done.

    Just like I have to show that I've gotten something done for the company in order to justify my paycheck, maybe it's time for the meeting-happy managers to show that their meetings have provided value to the company.

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  4. The real problem ... by khasim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meetings are really dick-size wars. The manager that can call the most people to a meeting obviously has the biggest dick. And if you have to attend that meeting, your dick is smaller than his.

    Once you get past the need for the ego boost, you notice that meetings drop off to almost nothing. No matter what the technology used, no matter what the industry.