Often, the more people attend, the content of the meeting may not be important.
On the contrary, it is very important to hold a small meeting secretly in the boss's office.
Small circles set big things, but big meetings are pompous. All important decisions will be completed at the end of the meeting or in the last five minutes before lunch, and the long time in between is nothing more than a formality and endurance training. The more people attended, the more empty words were being spoken, and the really important issues were decided in secret meetings between the main leaders. This is the law of meetings in the workplace.
There is a particularly expressive sentence that talks about this phenomenon in the workplace:Small things are held in small meetings, big things are held in small meetings, and especially important things are not heldAnd you'll find that a meeting with a lot of people doesn't matter, and there aren't many people in an important meeting;Solve small problems and hold meetings, solve big problems and hold small meetings, solve key problems without meetings, and keep meeting when problems are not solved. At the end of the day, the value of a meeting is determined by the number of people in attendance, remember, not proportionally, but inversely!
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, China at that time was divided into the inner court and the outer court, and they often held meetings to decide on military affairs. But the outer court put on a façade and pretended, although hundreds of civil and military officials participated, and the uproar was very grand, and they all felt that they were like the protagonists, in fact, the emperor had already known the important issues, and the only thing they could do when they stood below was to listen to the emperor's speech, and then raise their hands to agree. What really played a decisive role was the Inner Court Conference, which only Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and a few henchmen could attend. If Emperor Wu wants to decide on any major event, he will summon these people into the palace in advance, hold a closed-door meeting, set the tone, unify the tone, and discuss how to deal with the group of ministers in the hall in the morning of the next day, and then it will be demonstrated at the court meeting according to the script.
This set created by Emperor Wu has continued in China for more than 2,000 years, and many emperors in later generations have learned it, and today's workplace has been carried forward and has become an unspoken rule. The congress must be preceded by a secret meeting between the directors. Once all the important questions have been answered, we will go to the conference to perform and read them. Of course, at the conference, it was not without controversy, and it was not that no one came out to sing a few words of contradiction, but in most cases, the arguments were concluded in private, and they should be settled, and it stands to reason that they were settled at the bottom, and the private negotiations were nothing more than at the wine table, in the green building, where it was really the place where the Chinese bigwigs held meetings.
There is a classic TV series in the UK, called "Yes, Prime Minister", in which the representative of the bureaucratic image Han Fuli has a famous saying, which is the truth of this meeting to discuss problems:In general, we offer three options. Whichever of these three options you choose is in our best interest, and it appears to be a decision made on democratic principles. Humphrey's sarcasm about the backbenchers of the parliament is full of ridicule of the meeting, because all the important issues are just discussed and decided by him, the permanent secretary to the prime minister, and the prime minister in a small office, and then he comes up with three packaged options that are the only solution no matter how they are chosen, and put them in the meeting for discussion.
When I got the words spoken at the meeting and the topics discussed, there was basically nothing that was not conducive to unity. Therefore, the ancient officialdom meeting was a procedure, a procedure for deciding what to do after big and small matters, and what to do, in fact, it was arranged in private. However, although some matters have been decided a long time ago, the discussion at the meeting must still be serious, and when expressing an official statement, it must be arranged in strict accordance with the status and identity of the personnel in the workplace and according to the hierarchical order. If you don't do what you have discussed in advance and say what you have agreed upon, even if you will not be expelled on the spot, there will be no good results afterwards, and you will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.
This is true not only in the ancient officialdom, but also in the workplace, where private discussions, meetings go through formalities, and go through procedures. Whenever there is a big event,A few giants with real power have discussed everything, and then put it out at the meeting, and even if the weak party has an opinion, it will not be able to become a climate, so it can only swallow its anger. Therefore, in the workplace, if anyone is often called to a small meeting, it is a proof that he is valued and has real power. Nutrition is not expensive, the small stove has nutrition, but the big pot is just some chowder. If a person can only observe the conference with everyone and has never been opened by the leader, then he can only be far away from the time when he can see the moon in the workplace!
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