Comments on: COB-13: meetings bring people together

By: COB-64: defending bureaucratic news

COB-64: defending bureaucratic news — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:17:46 +0000

[...] least into headline writers, opinion writers, feature writers, news writers, and beaten writers. A meeting to establish a committee to redraft the TOTC should be scheduled [...]

By: COB-62: excellence in nothing

COB-62: excellence in nothing — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:08:37 +0000

[...] one-hour "HR Orientation" that included topics such as "Badge Photos" and "Fill out Paperwork." Meetings bring people together and help to make a bureaucracy [...]

By: COB-18: bureaucratic arts

COB-18: bureaucratic arts — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:48:38 +0000

[...] for a half-century or longer. We have complete confidence in journalism school deans' abilities to arrange meetings. Nonetheless, we fear that traditional news organizations and supporting bureaucracies do not have [...]

By: COB-60: board meetings

COB-60: board meetings — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:41:50 +0000

[...] corporation's esprit de corps depends on having frequent, long meetings. Despite the grave dangers currently confronting economies across the world, some irresponsible [...]

By: COB-58: benefits of bureaucratic empires

COB-58: benefits of bureaucratic empires — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:04:51 +0000

[...] if your organization doesn't have a bureaucratic empire, start building one at your next meeting.In other bureaucratic issues this month, new Google CEO Larry Page reportedly "has made a series of [...]

By: hierarchical organization vs. flat organization

hierarchical organization vs. flat organization — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:54:46 +0000

[...] John D. Cook at The Endeavour reports an insightful historical anecdote about meetings from Karl Fogel's book, Producing Open Source Software. According to the anecdote, Thomas Jefferson, a revered U.S. founder, attached great importance to meetings and prepared extensively for them. Here at the Carnival of Bureaucrats, we have long advocated for meetings. [...]

By: purple motes » COB-52: sloths unjustly maligned

purple motes » COB-52: sloths unjustly maligned — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:05:08 +0000

[...] to be done." The best way to do more is to determine first what doesn't have to be done. Meetings can help you do [...]

By: purple motes » COB-46: bureaucratic participation

purple motes » COB-46: bureaucratic participation — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:05:21 +0000

[...] Nothing is more important in a bureaucracy than allowing everyone to have their voice heard. If you just talk to yourself in your cubicle, everyone else in your department won't hear your voice. That's especially true if your company's space is equipped with plush, sound-absorbing cubicle dividers. If you have your own office, then talking to yourself in your office surely won't give you a chance to have your voice heard. The answer is meetings. [...]

By: purple motes » COB-45: historic forms

purple motes » COB-45: historic forms — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:49:20 +0000

[...] long meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. He describes these important meetings as "monuments to bureaucracy": they present a televised world stage to middle-ranking bureaucrats [...]

By: purple motes » COB-40: focusing on your job

purple motes » COB-40: focusing on your job — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:08:51 +0000

[...] Bear Matters BC reports on bureaucrats' criticisms of their own agency's proposed orphan black bear rehabilitation facility. Good bureaucrats fearlessly tell their leaders the truth. In light of freedom-of-information laws, it is best to tell the truth verbally in meetings. [...]