I'm no expert on organizational communication, or, heaven forbid, group dynamics, but after going through three five hour meetings in as many days, I've developed some opinions.
Most of them have something to do with electrocution.
In my estimation, most of the problems with meetings, especially long meetings, have to do with people, and behavior modification of people seems best accomplished by electrical shock. Stimulus-response behavior modification, anyway. I'm going to assume reason just won't work, because, again, we're dealing with human beings.
My suggestion: every team should hire an unpredictable dwarf, give them a cattle prod, and let them creep about in meetings, zapping people at will.
The meetings would likely then be much shorter. So to speak.
And they would surely be more entertaining. I'm willing to risk a few volts for that alone.
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