Nothing exhausts me more than a meeting that was completely useless. Why is IBM demanding so many meetings with no clear purpose?
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Couple short meetings a month. Nice!
Half? You're in a very productive group. Most of my meetings are for leadership to push their problems to me because they can't figure them out.
That's exactly what I did. I quit IBM in my 30s. No college degree; started my own company. I make 250-300k a year in the transportation business. Greatest decision of my entire life was to leave "corporate" America and I GOT TO F*** ALL OF THEM. LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT!!!
If you have some minute to spare, watch this: https://youtu.be/zKr4pEgGiPE
Met a guy in Vegas this weekend that lives in Ohio. Early 40s and built a business of 30 car dealerships, fitness clubs, restaurants, etc from nothing. Dude was playing 200/400 NLH at Bellagio and flying back this Sunday in a chartered jet
No college degree, just work ethic and grit. Made me question all of my life’s choices
Anybody ever felt like quitting tech and going into something different and working for yourself?
If we did not have all these meetings what would most of the managers be doing?
Half? You are lucky. Majority of our meetings could have been an email and we would have been better from it. It would have actually been documented! 15-20 people on the call where only few talk. They say they want feedback, but in reality they shutdown all ideas. Sadly those who were not good at their previous positions got promoted. They finally have the power but know nothing about leadership, and so they are the ones setting up the meetings and just talk, talk, talk….
Because mgt needs to justify their existence!!!