“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate” - Dave Barry
Makes a lot of sense. Something the big corporates should be taking heed of - it seems the higher up the structure you go the larger percentage of your day is consumed by the one hour meeting! A lot of the concepts remind me of the strategies Ricardo Semler talks about in his book Maverick - a good read if anyone's interested.
Article makes reasonable (although not exactly new) arguments for running faster, leaner, less formal with fewer meetings and more emails.<p>What annoys me is the twitter part - who in their right mind would have any sort important technical discussions over twitter? Can you imagine discussing MySQL tweaks 140 characters at a time? Dynamic programming algorithms? I guess some people just like to hit every nail with a social media hammer.