Meetings

The Gorse Fox has noticed, once again, that Jeremy Clarkson (one of the great philosophers of our time) has a similar take on meetings, to his own.

Now we all know that meetings don’t work.

All of them — with no exceptions — are a complete and utter waste of everyone’s time. Show me someone who goes to a lot of meetings and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t have a proper job.

All the great inventions and great leadership choices come from the mind of one egomaniac who then gets the job done. Everything after the initial idea is formulated can be achieved by e-mail.

Meetings are where good ideas get watered down and bad ideas are forced along because no one ever has the courage to stand up and say: “What the bloody hell are we doing here?”

This explains perfectly why government IT projects fail... they are run on meetings. One of the latest techniques the Gorse Fox has witnessed is "powerpoint insinuation". This involves creating powerpoint slide packs of other people's work and presenting them as your own work. (He has also seen a similar approach with "Word" documents - created by pagiarising other documents and recycled to senior managers as fresh research). GF will avoid the rant he can feel building at this point.

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