I take a pillow and blanket as whatever is said is basically bollocks by people who have no idea and just go ahead and do my thing afterwards which turns out to be what they wanted anyway.
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Massive cultural difference between US and the UK. Those guys love meetings. They're meeting mad. The extra hours they work are to make up for the meeting suck & at the end of them no-one has taken any actions, so when they meet up again no-one has done anything.
So far I've built out a detailed project plan / tasks, with over 200 individual actions & I'm only half way through my notes.
I need a smarter way to work on this one though.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Record and transcribe. Then you also have the actual recording when someone says, no, I didn't actually say that, and you then say, really? Listen to this...
Taking notes is for secretaries...Comment
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FTFYOriginally posted by MarillionFan View PostMassive cultural difference between US and the UK. Those guys love meetings. They're meeting mad. The extra hours they work are to make up for the meeting suck & at the end of them no-one has taken any actions, so when they meet up again no-one has done anything.
So far I've built out a detailed project plan / tasks, with over 200 individual actions & I'm only half way through my notes.
I need to be smarter to work on this one though.Comment
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