By Steve Moran
A few Thursdays ago (I have to be careful not to disclose too much here), I sat in a conference room for fifty-three minutes. I know because I checked my watch. Twice … well, actually more like a dozen times …
Seven people around a table. Good people. Smart people.
Sarah gave us an update on … well, I can’t actually tell you because I don’t really remember.
Then … Mike talked about something else, and after that Jennifer talked about something with some vendor contract … At least I remembered that.
Then the meeting was over, I grabbed my backpack, went back to what I was doing, and couldn’t remember a single thing that was decided.
Because we hadn’t decided anything, we’d just … talked. We’d spent an hour listening to information we could’ve read in an email. Every single person in that room had work waiting for them. Real work. Problems that needed solving. And we’d just burned an hour telling each other what we already knew.
I was exhausted. We all were. And nothing had changed.
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