The Managing Model

So I finally got the meeting set up yesterday. After all the time wasting emails, all it took was for the two bigshots to agree on a time and everything else would have fell into place. But no, I had to send multiple emails to the parties involved, call up secretaries, try to get them to make space for this meeting and in the end, all it took was for one of the bosses to make a decision on the time.

To begin with, I think the working model for the company is untenable. The management is so busy with meetings that he does not have room for ad-hoc matters that requires their attention. How then does he get time to think about vision and strategy for the company? That should be the job of the top executives not just the CEO. Sure, their job is to look at the more micro details that does not reach the Chief Executive but if all they do is minutia, what separates them from the other workers? The scary part about not having time to think is that they are more easily steered by the recommendations of the various operating departments who work in isolated silos. Information can be couched and presented in a different light to support a local cause that may not align with the companies goals.

I believe that people should be allowed to work at slightly under capacity to allow for recuperation and room for additional ideas. There are so many projects that I would like to start that will help with productivity or knowledge preservation which the department is sorely lacking. But what little I have done in my spare time, I have neither time to organize, rethink or present in a manner that will make them useful.

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