[DaSHacka]

> Blissfully unaware that meetings and emails are how big organizations function.

I don't know, I've seen more big organizations that have a dysfunctional amount of middle management and "meetings about meetings" than ones that truly benefit from that culture.

[drw85]

I worked for some large corps and they all had one thing in common.

Tons of middle management that makes no decisions what so ever.

Everytime you ask a question, they delegate, until you end up at person 1 again and they just can't decide anything.

It's like they all have decision paralysis.

[tootie]

Meetings about meetings are frequently mandatory steps to navigate internal politics. Frame your questions, gather allies, hone your message. It's how you don't waste the time of very busy people that you need things from. Besides, the alternative is fewer managers dealing with 20+ reports and not knowing what anyone is doing. Institutional inertia can be frustrating, but it's also necessary to avoid chaos.