Meetings are too easy to create. When you add up employee salaries, they cost hundreds of dollars per hour. People should have to pitch big meetings. They should write detailed memos that show effort and clarity of thought. The meeting only happens if the pitch is good.
Contra that: the value of common knowledge, co-ordination, collaboration, and the sheer benefit of coming together are hard to articulate and easy to underrate. Essays that would be fun to write: "In praise of meetings"; "In praise of bureaucracy". (I don't like meetings either!)
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You make good points. I think I’d want to create a company that’s pro-friendship and anti-meetings. Employees would be encouraged to chat during lunch and go on long walks during the day. But big meetings would be discouraged and hard to create. Are those too much at odds?
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Nice. "Bureaucracy as Durkheimian kanban"? Accepting constant low-level chaos and wastefulness in the interest of long-term organizational health. The challenge is to maintain coordination by emphasizing rather than by repressing the agency and responsibility of individuals.
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