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Monday, September 03, 2007

Help - WMD proliferate

Meetings, it almost enlightened me as to why the typical nerd was also supposed to be perpetually high on some or the other substance. How else could one survive the ordeal unless semi in Nirvana land?
Given the rapid proliferation of these ways of mass discomfort - WMD in corporate culture we the sanity lovers need to come up with ways to hit back. Having been in places where sometimes meetings were scheduled for over 8 hours and no this was not a sales department but the hardcore tech one, and even now where WMDs often demand over 5 hours on many working day per day, I've been thinking-(that too on a Monday. Yeah I know its not something that I have done in many years but frankly this is a crises scenario. As a result of moving those massive brain levers here are some caffeine empowered techniques that a (non PH)-B should implement to reduce the WMD quest of lessor minions.

1. Auction of meeting times. People are given certain amount of 'currency' to buy meeting minutes. A 10 minute meeting of 10 people? Sure that'll be 10*10=100/- currency. You can do without 5 or your original list, thought so too, hand out 5*10=50/-. You can do it in 5 min? sure that'll be 25/- plz.
2. And yeah, your last meeting overshot by 20 min. The attendees have had half the person rate times 20min deducted for spending time in meetings. System is auto-claiming their deduction from you. so you need to hand in that currency too.

Such an approach I'm sure will see a significant reduction in WMD proliferation. Then it may be possible for folks to actually get some time in the day to get the work they were supposed to get done done.

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