I was asked to attend a meeting at a company (I won't name it) with a certain number of middle-level and senior people, to address issues with which I am familiar.
I adopted the fly-on-the-wall mentality to assess the terrain.
Two hours later (an hour longer than planned and scheduled) my head hurt.
In this meeing I heard people say things like:
1. "
What we need here is a synergistic propedeutic to massage the hurtful instance away (from the marketing guy, late 30s)"
2. "
Once we formulate the ideology of our stance, we need to socialize it among the potentially concurring members (the planning lady, mid 30s)"
3. "
Once we kiss the snake, it all goes away (business development guy, mid 30s)"
What are these people smokin' ?
No wonder American business is falling apart. Corporations have fallen in love with themselves. Or their staffs have.
In the meeting, no one had posted an agenda or figured out what parts of the non-existent agenda they had / had not accomplished.
Two hours of my life I'll never get back....
