Meetings are the lifeblood of corporate culture. They're the perfect excuse to justify the existence of conference rooms, coffee machines, and the occasional existential dread that comes with being trapped in a windowless room with 12 people who still use AOL email.
However, not all meetings are created equal. Some are the result of careful planning and forethought, while others are just an excuse to avoid actual work.
Meetings: Optimizing the Opt-Out aims to shed some light on the dark art of creating the most efficient, the most effective, and the most utterly soul-sucking meetings imaginable.
Meetings are not just for discussing ideas, but also for judging people. Who's got the most points on their scoreboard? Who's got the best hairpiece? Who's secretly reading a romance novel under the conference table?