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...ing to the [[first law of work entropy]], it is logically impossible for a conference call to start on time. ...et alone”,<ref>{{Buchstein}}, {{dsh}}, III, ii.</ref> the point at which a conference call can become [[ontological]]ly quorate is, necessarily, a non-trivial pe

...eans to “browse the internet”. What most people do during most [[all-hands conference call]]s and the brazen do during [[meeting]]s. *[[Conference call anatomy]]

...of this kind of [[entropy]]. [[Conference call]]s — especially [[all-hands conference call]]s — generate dangerously high levels. Add financial reporting folk

...least three people in the universe, and since they were all engaged on a [[conference call]], God was almost certainly not one of them. “God is omniscient,” he said. “God doesn’t do [[conference call]]s. What would be the point?”

If you find yourself on an all-hands [[conference call]] and it calls to mind the scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, when the PFJ discuss

...s}} and [[master trading agreement]]s as well as [[Conference call anatomy|conference call]]s, [[reg tech]] and a bit of [[cricket]].

===Conference call epistemology=== ...ire multi-personal [[epistemology]] from the commercial inevitability of [[conference call]]s.

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...the proliferation of [[conference call]]s and, far worse, video-conference calls — groupings in the [[analogue past]] one mysteriously managed to do witho

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...e, and the greater the psychological barriers to candid communication: who calls bullshit in front of 40 people? So do your bit to keep the meeting tight an ...ent locations, convene physical meetings in each location bridged by video conference, rather than using Skype.

...|2048 catastrophe|jpeg|Heartbroken.}}}}A concentration aid for [[all-hands conference call]]s. A game where the objective, by sliding squares around a grid and d ...hould the mood take you - apply your full attention to the content of your conference call, without being tempted to go on Twitter, Google holidays in Tanzania,

As you wade into your fourth consecutive hour of [[all hands conference call]]s, a time will surely come when you will find yourself asking aloud:

{{dsh conference calls}} The line one rolls out when one can no longer bear an [[all-hands conference call]], but there is no less brazen way of engineering an exit.

...|stakeholder check-ins]], [[All-hands conference call|all-hands conference calls]], [[key performance indicator]]s, state-of-the-art governance metrics, del

1. A sure sign, in an [[all-hands conference call]], that some ''ingénue'' has made the fatal mistake of dropping throu ...theory]], and therefore should not, in any circumstances, be broached on a conference call. You have as much chance of persuading a [[management consultant]] to

...evolent god, for no such deity could exist in a universe where [[all-hands conference call]]s are an inevitability. ...slations of this work render “[[meeting|business meeting]]” as [[all-hands conference call]]</ref> (“and,” said [[Büchstein]], “take it from me, there mos

...on wrought on the world by this fashion of scheduling bilateral conference calls, which both parties must dial into, rather than the traditional, and perfec But there is a more practical objection: ''time''. Not only do pre-arranged calls, like judder bars, break up the flow of one’s day, thus interrupting you

...[[convenimus ergo es]]'', based on the ''[[a priori]]'' inevitability of [[conference call]]s.

...n that, anyone who spends her whole day on her chuff attending [[all-hands conference call]]s, engaging in hand-to-hand combat over [[email]], preparing Excel sp