Posts Tagged ‘Meetings’

Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2025

OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944): Im Unternehmensalltag aktueller denn je

Ich behaupte: Wer in Grossunternehmen arbeitet, wird folgende Sabotage-Taktiken tagtäglich erleben:

  1. Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
  2. Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate “patriotic” comments.
  3. When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.
  4. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
  5. Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
  6. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
  7. Advocate “caution.” Be“reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
  8. Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.

Via: The Best Sabotage is Undetectable. So how do you spot Field Sabotage in Meetings?

Das gesamte Handbuch kann hier herunterladen: Simple Sabotage Field Manual

(Das Office of Strategic Services OSS der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ist der Vorgänger der Central Intelligence Agency CIA)

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Sonntag, 25. November 2018

Je mehr Meetings, desto unproduktiver

Leider wahr. Je höher man in der Hierarchie eines Unternehmens steigt, umso voller sind die Kalender der hohen Tiere.

I’ve found that the number of meetings on your calendar is directly, inversely proportional to your productivity on any given day. That obviously isn’t to say that all meetings are bad or a waste of time, but most work cultures do tend to have a bias towards them that isn’t very conducive to peak team productivity. Teams hold more meetings when they don’t have enough important work to do otherwise.

Quelle: Don’t work “remotely”

Und das kennen wir doch auch alle:

The most popular criticism of this style of working is that it supposedly doesn’t work for “deep” collaboration. Maybe it’s fine for coordinating tasks, critics say, but it can never replace grabbing a few of your colleagues for an in-person whiteboard brainstorming session. (Whenever I hear this criticism, my first sympathies are for the critic’s colleagues, who apparently live in constant fear of being “grabbed” and their work derailed by their coworker’s sudden need to brainstorm.)

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