Am I the only one who possesses a brain in this entire department? My
I just sat through an hour long meeting this week where the final decision was that we wouldn’t do anything.
To make matters worse, this wasn’t the first meeting on the topic. We had already wasted an hour and a half listening to everyone talk about the same nothing the week before and coming to the exact same conclusion. The room was packed, it’s crazy to think how much time and resources was wasted for those two pointless meetings.
What is even sadder is that I seem to be the only person who saw how ridiculous the situation was. No one else seemed to mind that we’d wasted all that time discussing something that was a foregone conclusion.
- Encourage "round-table" discussions then dominate them and dismiss disagreement.
- Involve subordinates in the decision making process by having them attend a merry-go-round of unrelated meetings.
