The Military Wastes too much time in meetings

[TexasTowelie]

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (April 3, 2015) -- One of the most precious commodities a Soldier has is time, and a
lot of time is wasted in person-to-person exchanges and group meetings, Gen. David C. Perkins said.

Perkins, who serves as commander of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, along with other Army leaders,
met with and heard the opinions of 84 majors during Colloquium 2015, here, March 30.

The topic of wasted time at meetings came as an aside after Maj. James Gibson told Perkins that it is a challenge
for the Army to support Soldiers' self development with limited resources.

Perkins agreed with Gibson's thoughts that self development is one of the most essential components of leader
development and that it is also "one of the most underutilized domains we have."

Continued at: http://www.ncosupport.com/military-training/military-meeting-waste-of-time.html

[Telcontar]

1. Gonna need a quad chart and story board on this

Have slide deck avail as read ahead by 1600 for review and we'll meet to go over the pre-brief in the morning.

[merrily]

2. Good one!

[eridani]

3. Given that "military" is a subset of "everybody" this is not a huge surprise nt/

[Major Hogwash]

4. How did they find this out? They held a meeting!

You do realize the irony of solving a problem by compounding on the problem is quite, well, ironic, don't you?

[Lurks Often]

5. I doubt most corporations are any better

based on what I have seen and experienced, anyone managing more then 20 people spends most of their day in meetings with other managers.

And based on my experiences in the National Guard, we were always happier when the platoon leaders were in meetings or otherwise not around, we got a lot more done without them interfering with their "good" ideas.