Meeting 5: Mandate Theory

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Mandate Theory: A comprehensive guide to making more work for everyone. Our team of experts has crafted a 10-point plan to ensure that every meeting is a never-ending cycle of pointless discussion and unnecessary action items.

1. Create an action item for every idea.

2. Assign a person to follow up on every action item, even if it's just for show.

3. Schedule a follow-up meeting to discuss the action items, because why have just one meeting?

4. Create a spreadsheet to track the action items, because who doesn't love a good spreadsheet?

5. Have a separate meeting to discuss the spreadsheet, just in case.

And so on, and so on, and so on.