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Something I noticed visiting a few companies w/ more than 250+ ppl: - Meetings with a lot of people (more than 10 but not an all hands) - Why do they all need to be here? - Why do many of them look so uncomfortable / don't want to be here? - How does this end up happening? - Wtf?

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Productivity larping Many such cases

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You just hit upon one of my pet peeves. That being, this trend to keep adding on without knowing why, and usually without any system to effectively manage it. The more people you add to meetings, the more likely an organization is to embody the Ringleman effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringelmann_effect

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https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf made me think of

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Let's say you have 10 people in an hour long meeting, 7 of which don't want (or need) to be there, with no authority to exit*. On conservative base salary rates, thats maybe $1K just raw cost for that group to meet. Perhaps only 3 people needed to be there, yet 7 more get loaded in "because optics (?)" or worse. So we spent $1K to get $300 of possible "meeting value"...but it's worse, because the effectiveness of what that 3 are doing with 7 dead-weights drags it down further. Add 10 people, when you needed 3 at most. $1K → ~$150 x3-6 p/day, after day, after day Borg inertia of doom. __ (*) Alternative (uncommon) realities. In contrast, the McCarthy protocol: - <Pass> allows any individual to leave a meeting if they feel they cannot contribute positively or are not gaining value from the discussion. and - <Check-Out> If you decide that you need to leave a meeting, you should explicitly declare your intention by saying, “I am checking out.” ← no explanation required. via @yeoro.eth

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most people just show up to clock in only 2-3 people in those meetings are active contributors

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Looks like our family company, some meetings there’s more than 20 people (half of them are sleeping). But Japan and productivity can’t be in the same sentence 😂

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When I was in a similar company. I always got the feeling they were trying to be like the big boys. Monkey see, monkey do. They were ok giving up all the advantages that got them to that place to put on a show.

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this golden oldie from Alex Komoroske at least part of the answer https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/

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Mindless pattern repetition

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managers get promoted when they have a lot of reports so the incentive is to hire as much as possible. investors also succumb to the demand for more funds because “we need to hire so many people”

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since it's the idiots' rule.

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From what I’ve seen, at best this is an attempt by leadership to expose those lower on the ladder to bigger picture issues, a part of helping those folks grow in the careers. Might be better to just give those folks more responsibility and if that leads to joining these meeting so be it.

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I think it’s the notion of the more brain the more idea. Where real you just need 1-3 people focused on the matter and move from there.

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They look uncomfortable because they have less time to actually do their job and most of the info being shared at the meeting probably doesn’t pertain to their role, someone higher up in the chain wants to feel like they are creating value so they force the meeting upon others because they can 100 $degen

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Lol who wants to have a 9-5?

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