Meeting: Difference between revisions

{{a|confcall|}}A [[meeting]] is what happens when a colleague unilaterally asserts that ''his'' agenda is more important than yours. Though, of course, meetings ''can'' be benign and even fruitful — few of history’s monsters have been wholly without redeeming feature — convening a meeting is a profoundly political act and, however well-intended, most of what goes on in them has a starkly political aspect.  

Meetings are thus best avoided, and any adept [[survivor]] will have developed detailed tactics for doing so. Like [[meeting avoidance tactics|these ones]].

Like a [[conference call]], only without phones, it’s much harder (though not impossible, depending on how brazen you are) to [[multi-task]], and impossible to go on [[Sorry, I was on mute|mute]].  

“Important” meetings are often stewarded by a functionary from the [[COO]] office — a “[[project manager]]” or “[[workstream lead]]” —who gets to watch the the grisly proceedings up close, occasionally twisting the knife with an “innocent” question<ref>{{maxim|On a conference call, there are no innocent questions}}. There are ''stupid'' questions, ''leading'' questions and ''trick'' questions.</ref> or even going full [[Crazy Ivan]].