IS SARCASTIC HUMOR, BUT HERE IS AN HONEST RESPONSE The solution to valueless mee

https://medium.com/comedy-corner/10-tricks-to-appear-smart-during-meetings-27b489a39d1aOP IS SARCASTIC HUMOR, BUT HERE IS AN HONEST RESPONSE

The solution to valueless meetings is actually to teach classes in creativity on one hand and communication on the other, so that you know which you’re going to engage in. Most people schedule meetings not to inform but to either persuade, or to problem solve. And while informing, and persuading are good for formal meeting structures, problem solving is not something that is suitable for the traditional meeting format. Unfortunately (a) people think creativity is an intuition or talent rather than a process (b) won’t work hard enough to prepare a problem solving meeting, and (c) limited numbers of people will invest in a problem solving meeting as companies are currently organized.

Great companies swap this around, and force non-creative meetings into email, and train employees to conduct creative sessions, and use peer reviews to rate people’s performance in those creative sessions, and therefore compensate people for participation in creative sessions.

Given that I’ve been doing this for most of my career I’ll throw out that the solution to most problems exists in most companies and middle and upper management blocks those solutions from coming out or being implemented because of the organizational impact solutions would have.

SO instead of organizing so that they can implement solutions they organize to resist them in a fallacious attempt at obtaining efficiency. Which is really a code word for ‘not requiring management to manage’. which in turn produces rent seeking behaviors throughout an organization.