Yes, yes, yes. I will be the first person in line to tell you that meetings are productivity's greatest enemy. And in my field there's either a meeting OR someone wanting a meeting, every time you look sideways.
I've heard of You can talk 'til the cows come home, but.....; never ....until the ship sinks. That takes it down to a whole new level. Blah, blah, blah.....glug.
Yes, Robert, Poet Laureate of La La Land, (BTW I just had to write out your whole "name". (:o) ) I can get committed to death, too. At work I dreaded those "Staff meetings". Blah, blad , bad (the misspelling was intentional) and nothing gets done.....meanwhile the ship is sinking and you say, "Let's get up a committee on this"?!
Yes, seems to be a symptom of the 1980s when it is all about "ME" so let's talk about me rather than do something constructive or even destructive. Good one, John Philipp.
Well, you see I have been married to a planner for many many years. He plans out so many things...and now I know now planning is really another name for dreaming... I thought it really was going to go into action and now I am more laid back and think, I'll believe it when I see it on the loading dock. I am more of a doer, so when there are plans I tend to want to go get materials and get started right away....now I realize that there is no rush as there is already plenty of materials for projects still waiting on the shelf. My house is filled with round tooits.
Unless one is talking to oneself and then one can be practicing self-therapy ;) or that is my reasoning, anyway. The kids just say, "Mom is talking to herself again."
I am always struck by people who complain about a problem and when told how to solve the problem they resist even thinking about it. Complaining is easier than taking action. Some find it more fun as well.
John...I see a lot of my son's friends..those who jump in and get the job done and those that talk about how it should be done as they watch it being done. The talkers are the ones who go around saying "We got it done."
Sounds exactly like our children ... over the years, they have successfully manipulated many unpleasant situations involving chores - by bombasting us with rhetoric!
It's like the old men on the downtown benches, who talk & sometimes complain about how things should be done or being done badly, but won't get off their keesters to make a difference to a situation. You notice they weren't even smart enough to get a life preserver or inflatable raft. How long can you tread water?!?
John Thank you for emailing me with all this Gather stuff its hard to keep up with my friends list ....Like the cartoon....did you draw this ? Great job Big Ten here.. Thank you for reminding me of my friends lol God Bless You my friend ..
You have been in the corporate environment where that philosophy was invented. Bitching about it after the fact is also the way to prove you were right in not doing anything before the fact. Talking is a way to avoid doing and we all know that doing can lead to failure, therefore we must not do anything.
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OK, not ALL meetings are necessary.
Could a ship sink if a group of politicians were talking inside?
An excellent aspect/twist to this Thought~Byte.
Believe it or not, some managers run excellent, productive and valuable Staff Meetings.
Seriously, I heard there was a manager once in a land far,far away ...
It does now, Jeanette.
I guess it depends whom they are saying it to, Jo :)
So — what you're saying is that if my mother hadn't insisted I eat lima beans I would have never developed this neurotic need to ....
Chew away.
Good observation.
Thank you for emailing me with all this Gather stuff its hard to keep up with my friends list ....Like the cartoon....did you draw this ? Great job Big Ten here..
Thank you for reminding me of my friends lol God Bless You my friend ..
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Bidding final farewell to cartoonist Phil Frank
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Sorry I forgot that, Bill. It's been a while.