For engineers, meetings waste time and money
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For engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number of meetings expected of engineering managers can end up being a distraction that does more harm than good.
Is 'engineers' a word meaning 'everyone' in that headline?
My Stupid Idea of the Day(tm): Each manager is given a certain allotment for meetings each time period. The allotment is used up based on the salary of everyone they invite to the meeting. They don't know the size of the allotment, or the salaries, they just know the % of the allotment left for that time period. Once the allotment is used up, they can no longer schedule meetings until the next time period.
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For engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number of meetings expected of engineering managers can end up being a distraction that does more harm than good.
Is 'engineers' a word meaning 'everyone' in that headline?
My Stupid Idea of the Day(tm): Each manager is given a certain allotment for meetings each time period. The allotment is used up based on the salary of everyone they invite to the meeting. They don't know the size of the allotment, or the salaries, they just know the % of the allotment left for that time period. Once the allotment is used up, they can no longer schedule meetings until the next time period.
Kent Sharkey wrote:
Each manager is given a certain allotment for meetings each time period. The allotment is used up based on the salary of everyone they invite to the meeting. They don't know the size of the allotment, or the salaries, they just know the % of the allotment left for that time period. Once the allotment is used up, they can no longer schedule meetings until the next time period.
Lucky you if meeting only come from managers... I have had them set by many other people.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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For engineers moving up the career ladder, the mounting number of meetings expected of engineering managers can end up being a distraction that does more harm than good.
Is 'engineers' a word meaning 'everyone' in that headline?
My Stupid Idea of the Day(tm): Each manager is given a certain allotment for meetings each time period. The allotment is used up based on the salary of everyone they invite to the meeting. They don't know the size of the allotment, or the salaries, they just know the % of the allotment left for that time period. Once the allotment is used up, they can no longer schedule meetings until the next time period.
A good technical manager who was something of a mentor in my early days told me that he liked it when he was invited to two conflicting meetings. He would then attend neither, because everyone would assume he was in the other one.
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