The Fifth String on the Banjo of Life: Observation

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Once in a while, you need to revisit corporate mythology and challenge the received wisdom.

Anonymous said...: Oh man...don' do anything stupid or that will land you on the news...

*hangs head in shame*; October 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM
The Fifth String said...: Naw, nothing like that. But sometimes you need to reevaluate how things are done and reexamine assumptions. The don't always hold forever.; October 10, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Anonymous said...: But sometimes you need to reevaluate how things are done and reexamine assumptions. The don't always hold forever.

A point that has been missed by the "geniuses" running my organization for years.; October 11, 2008 at 7:04 AM
Mr. Bingley said...: Let's hold meetings to discuss new ideas for holding meetings!; October 11, 2008 at 3:04 PM
The Fifth String said...: Let's hold meetings to discuss new ideas for holding meetings!

Indeed. Many years ago, I developed the Sawtooth Wave Theory of Meetings:

Meetings, and the time they suck up, increase linearly until one day someone stands up in a meeting and says "I have nothing new to present. I was in meetings all week."

Wherupon the Powers That Be immediately kill all meetings.

At which point, the cycle starts again.

Sadly, in more than twenty years I have yet to be proven wrong.; October 11, 2008 at 3:23 PM