by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We tend to have many meetings\u2014”many” being subjective. Since we do this so often, let try to do it better.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I worked for the Federal government for several decades. Government employees meet in groups several times every day. I have also worked for companies on government contracts. We met with the government representatives several times each week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes a meeting was worth the expense of all those salaries for that hour or so. Often, however, it was a waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many meetings can be replaced by a newsletter, wiki, blog, etc. Here is information I want everyone else to know. I put it on an “information radiator” for all to see. Done. No need for a meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want us to work through something. Good, let’s have a facilitated meeting and “git ‘er done.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n I just want to sit with my colleagues and talk. Good, let’s go to Chotskie’s, have some coffee, something to eat, and talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s think about what we want to do and do it better. We can do that, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n NOTE: Chotskie’s was the name of that restaurant in the movie “Office Space.” (1999) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips We tend to have many meetings\u2014”many” being subjective. Since we do this so often, let try to do it better. I worked for the Federal government for several decades. Government employees meet in groups several times every day. I have also worked for companies on government contracts. We met with the government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,316,9,25,325,340],"tags":[270,317,132,147,326,342],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decide","category-improvement","category-management","category-meetings","category-purpose","category-simple","tag-decide","tag-improvement","tag-management","tag-meetings","tag-purpose","tag-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}