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June 18, 2011

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Jeff Yates

This is awesome - thanks Kim. I can't believe that I missed the first set. I'll have to think up some of my own - on second thought, I should probably keep them to myself ...

Kim Krawiec

"on second thought, I should probably keep them to myself"

My rationalization is that the busy and important rarely have time to read blog posts . . .

Jeff Yates

Fair point Kim. I will tentatively add this one, but I reserve the right to take it back lest it offend anyone ;-)

11. Schedule many mandatory meetings for things that don't really need meetings. Give everyone who is attending homework and have them run it by you before the meeting - ask for a lot of changes to homework (e.g. reports) until it says exactly what you want it to say. Before the meeting work key meeting members to make sure that the vote will go your way; dont bother meeting with people who likely have a different opinion. At the meeting spend the first 30 minutes or so expressing your views. Ask for feedback - yell at anyone who has feedback contradictory to yours and get others to yell at them. Take the vote, which is already set anyway. In the end you get your way while making it look democratic and ensuring that you have no personal accountability for future bad outcomes because it was decided by committee.

Sorry for the length - I take it all back ;-)

Kim Krawiec

And this common variation:

"11. Schedule many mandatory meetings for things that don't really need meetings. Give everyone who is attending homework and have them run it by you before the meeting - ask for a lot of changes to homework (e.g. reports) until it says exactly what you want it to say. Before the meeting work key meeting members to make sure that the vote will go your way; dont bother meeting with people who likely have a different opinion."

Then fail to show up for the meeting.

Jeff Yates

Kim, you have elegantly and concisely 'out-ranted' me :-)

Jacqui Lipton

Kim, I would comment on your post but I'm WAY too busy and important...

Matt Lister

When I see people w/ those ear-piece phone things, I think they have started to be assimilated by the Borg. (The clip-on mikes and receivers for cell-phones first appeared in the US when I was living over-seas in a place that didn't have them. When I came back, for a while I thought at first that the number of crazy people talking to themselves out loud on the street had gone way up from the time I'd left.)

Also, wouldn't ordering a decaf skinny no-foam latte just make you look like someone who hated life, or at least good things, rather than important?

Kim Krawiec

Those decaf skinny people certainly seem to be the type who take all the fun out of life, Matt.

Jacqui -- your busyness and importance go without saying. I'm surprised you have time to read blog posts. I've always assumed that you were dictating your own posts.

Jacqui Lipton

You are right, of course! As long as we understand each other....

Tamara Piety

This is hilarious Kim! (BTW good to finally meet you)

Kim Krawiec

Thanks, Tamara! And nice to meet you in person.
Kim

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