Carter’s Law #1: The question asked is often not the one that needs to be answered (aka The 3 o’clock parade question)

Every time-management guru out there seems to agree that meetings are the great black-hole of life – hours go in there to never be heard from again. Unfortunately, meetings are a necessary evil but to learn how to keep them from being a time-hog, we spend countless hours in training on how to make meetings more worthwhile…oh the irony! “We waste too much time in meetings so for the next 17 weeks, every Tuesday afternoon we’ll have required training on our new meeting format tool to ensure we all know how to run and report on our meetings.” Continue reading “Carter’s Law #1: The question asked is often not the one that needs to be answered (aka The 3 o’clock parade question)”