Chapter 9: The Seven Deadly Platitudes - Meeting Sorcerer

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. 1. Painful Preambles - The art of talking around the point.
  2. 2. Bureaucratic Bureaucracy - The joy of filling out forms.
  3. 3. Infinite Iteration - When the meeting never ends.
  4. 4. Torturous To-Do Lists - When the agenda is a novel-length to-do list.
  5. 5. The Meeting Sorcerer's Apprentice - When the meeting leader is a wizard.
  6. 6. The Art of Saying Nothing - The meeting where everyone talks, but nothing gets done.
  7. 7. The Seven-Headed Hydra - When one meeting spawns seven more.