Legendary Waste4h 30m
The "Post-Mortem" Pre-Meeting
A meeting to discuss the agenda for the meeting that was meant to discuss why the project failed.
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A meeting to discuss the agenda for the meeting that was meant to discuss why the project failed.
Icebreakers included sharing our favorite tax-saving tips. I quit immediately after.
The 'quick question' took 45 minutes and resulted in 4 more meetings being scheduled.
We met to align on whether the pre-read for next week's strategy doc needs its own pre-read.
Re-org announced. Q&A skipped. Have a great weekend, team.
Three execs spent an hour deciding what color the brainstorm Post-its should be.