# Most Organizational Meetings By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-01-26 Most organizational meetings are the apex convergence of asymmetrical laziness and stress. The presenters spend large amounts of energy and effort to collect, compile, and synthesize work into a coherent set of talking points while the audience, typically managers, comes completely unprepared or unaware of what the meeting is even about. Each audience member follows their typical behavioral pattern of either disinterest or self-promotion. On a rare occasion, something meaningful will happen, but this outcome could have occurred simply by the audience member being engaged in the work as it was being performed. Management by meeting is probably the worst and lowest form of management as it's a complete exercise of positional power and nothing related to collective progress. Probably the only worst form of management is straight-on physical, emotional, and existential abuse, but I've found that Management by Meeting is often coupled with these. Maybe not as much physical abuse in terms of violence, but emotional and existential abuse runs rampant through the hallways - nobody who sees something says something other than a whisper of "leave." Yet, this is all organizations seem to be capable of today. It's the norm to schedule meeting instead of paying attention, reading a report, or having a conversation in solidarity with your employees and colleagues. On many occasions, no one reviews the content beforehand, no one pays attention, no one thinks, and everyone postures. Perhaps we are so accustomed to being told what to think and watching an edited story unfold in episodic form, that we've forgotten all the other ways of being. People grow tired of the bullshit and any inkling of hope will send them running toward something and anything else. #### Related Items [[Meetings]] [[Power]] [[Power Asymmetry]] [[Management]] [[Solidarity]]