Buckmaster No Fan of Meetings
May 20th, 2008 | by James |
How many times have you felt like this ….. “I just sat through another boring meeting. It was a presentation that seems like I’ve seen a 100 times before - yawn. I wish I could have skipped it, but I had to be there. What a total waste of time!”
Well you’re not alone. Jim Buckmaster, the unconventional CEO of Craigslist, apparently is no fan of meetings either.
“I’ve always found them to be at best unproductive and boring, and at worst toxic and destructive,” he says. “The people who want to show off do, the brown-nosers brown nose, everyone else wastes their time. I also think the larger the meeting, the worse it is.”
At Craigslist’s headquarters, Jim Buckmaster prefers meetings to take place electronically: “You often see people in the same room communicating via chat and instant messaging,” he says. Read more…
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