At start of meeting with a poor service provider their Director stands up and says “I will write on the board everything we do for you because otherwise you will not understand how complex and time consuming it is”. I let him write for about five minutes, finally interrupted his lecture and told him they do not do any of these things for us. This resulted in 10 minutes of shouting by the Director at members of his team. Not awkward at all…

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Published on April 11, 2012 by Mike

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I am certain that some meetings are held merely to hide the fact that some managers are unprepared to execute on projects that have been weeks in planning.