Bernie DeKoven ha una bella pagina con una specie di tassametro che ti permette di calcolare il costo di una riunione, secondo per secondo. Molto istruttivo.
Se vuoi approfondire trovi anche un sacco di links utili sull’argomento, e uno studio dell’Università della California del sud a Los Angeles che ne 1993 ha scoperto quanto segue:
- The average meeting takes place in the company conference room at 11 in the morning and lasts an hour and 30 minutes.
- It is attended by nine people — two managers, four co-workers, two subordinates and one outsider — who have received two hour prior notification
- It has no written agenda, and its purported purpose is complete only 50% of the time.
- A quarter of meeting participants complain they waste between 11 and 25 percent of the time discussing irrelevant issues
- A full third of them feel pressured to publicly espouse opinions with which they privately disagree
- Another third feel they have minimal or no influence on the discussion
- Although 36% of meetings result in a “complete” resolution of the topic at hand, participants considered only one percent of those conclusions to be particularly creative.
- A whopping 63% of meeting attendees feel that underlying issues outside the scope of the official agenda are the real subjects under discussion.
- Senior executives spend 53% of their time in meetings, at an average rate of $320 per person hour.
Allora tutto sommato non fanno male le società giapponesi a tenere le loro riunioni di sera, davanti a un bicchiere di birra, parlando del più e del meno. E’ così che raggiungono le decisioni importanti.