It was one of those days…
Meetings with associates ALL DAY LONG to clear up “little details.”
The first meeting was breakfast with several associates who proceeded to chatter and chat about various concerns and day-to-day problems that weren’t useful to the business at hand, but made for conversational fodder.
Next was a meeting with the VP which dragged for 75 minutes with half the attendees wishing someone had brought pillows.
On to another meeting.
Have you ever gone to a BNI meeting that dragged on as long?
Final meeting lasted 160 minutes with a break for lunch.
Everything that was covered FOR THE DAY could have been covered in about 40 minutes, at home via conference call or webinar.
Why do I mention all this stuff?
There is a LOT of time wasting in business. And I have a suspicion that it is about two things:
POWER and CONTROL
As long as a boss has you in a meeting to cover X amount of points or has you sitting listening to umpteen reasons why skinning kettlefish is good for the soul, the boss is in control.
Sidebar: Don’t get me wrong, if you are an owner of a company and you want your employees to listen why you wax eloquent on a topic, that’s fine. But when it comes to productivity, you need to get meetings going quickly.
In my businesses, the goal is profits. My people are paid for production.
More about time wasters in the next blog.
