Chapter 9: The Seven Deadly Platitudes
Meetings, the bane of productivity. But have you heard of the Seven Deadly Platitudes? They're like the seven deadly sins, but for meeting attendees.
- 1. Painful Preambles - The art of talking around the point.
- 2. Bureaucratic Bureaucracy - The joy of filling out forms.
- 3. Infinite Iteration - When the meeting never ends.
- 4. Torturous To-Do Lists - When the agenda is a novel-length to-do list.
- 5. The Meeting Sorcerer's Apprentice - When the meeting leader is a wizard.
- 6. The Art of Saying Nothing - The meeting where everyone talks, but nothing gets done.
- 7. The Seven-Headed Hydra - When one meeting spawns seven more.