There's some great stuff in here I won't go over, but it's mostly performance theater. Management, and people, love to talk, but especially management. I'm al

There's some great stuff in here I won't go over, but it's mostly performance theater. Management, and people, love to talk, but especially management. I'm always amazed how some people would rather have a whole day of meetings to figure out what should happen, when one person could just test the theory in an hour or so. But people love theory and hate facts. In theory no one is wrong, the conversation can go forever, and it's fun to have your mind think about something less mundane for a while. I'm reminded of a study although the link currently evades me. It was something about who feels best after a meeting, feeling the meeting was productive. It was usually two groups, which many times were the same person - the organizer, and the manager. Both of these people feel like even having the meeting is some kind of grand gesture of teamwork that is good, even if it was a complete waste of time and sent your team angrily in directions toward bathrooms on different sides of the building. The more people present at a meeting, the more useless they are. Of course the prime example of this is the "all hands meeting". Never go to these. They are a waste of time, and at worst, you can ask anyone else what else happened.