The inability of people in the average fortune 500 company to read materials sent out before a meeting is simply amazing. Reading things in a meeting before yo

The inability of people in the average fortune 500 company to read materials sent out before a meeting is simply amazing. Reading things in a meeting before you start is a great thing, I've been in places where some VP shows up at a meeting but never read the background material and make a decision without the facts. Then you have to walk back their decision which takes the political “juice” that so many middle managers have which requires many more meetings and reports. Having worked at Amazon, the farther away you get from Jeff the less this happens. And I’ve seen a few middle managers from average fortune 500 firms who got hired that learned to just stare at the paper but not actually read it.