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To combat some of this behaviour a couple of us published "meeting notes" in the company blog, headed by a summary of the time the meeting started, the time of each arrival, the length of time spent on actual business and secondary summary of the average dollar cost of the meeting based on an average for the attendee's pay scales.
This stopped our manager's weekly reading of the ENTIRE MENU from each place he lunched with the CEO or CIO (I kid you not) and recitation of tee times and scores.
Commented Jan 22, 2011 on Meetings and Bosshole Behavior: A Classic Case at Bob Sutton
Meetings and Bosshole Behavior: A Classic Case
One of the themes in Good Boss, Bad Boss, as well as some of my past academic research (see this old chapter on meetings as status contests), is that bosses and other participants use meetings to establish and retain prestige and power. This isn't always dysfunctional; for example, when I studi...
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