RE: Nemawashi - The Meetings Before the Meeting・Exploring Japanese Culture
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Hmnnnn... as an itinerant writer I'm conflicted on this one. I regularly have 'Laying the Groundwork' meetings in my head with various characters b4 moving on to the main meeting... making the plot choices.
Sometimes a character has to die... always awkward, as silence decends and everyone looks into their coffee mugs, or at the ceiling until 'said dead character' clears his desk 😂
But to be more serious, in my last salary job I had to go to soooo many meetings, and i always thought we're an environmental charity' what's all the fuss about... let's plant some trees or aquire, landscape, gas/vent and re-wild a 'past its used by date' landfill (as that was what the fundamental core activity of that charity did). But instead, we'd spend half a day/month outlining the progress on sites, and projects like the one i worked on, eat dubious food shipped in from a buffet catering business and drink coffee until the boardroom table was shaking because everyone had the jitters...
Can you tell I'm not the biggest fan of meetings 😉😅
Tbf though, if I'd have had to guess anywhere in the world that would have meetings to organise the main meeting, it would have been Japan.
Great read, and thanks for the insight into japanese corporate culture.
I hope you're doing well m8.
Yeah, I hear you. I hate meetings. Well I shouldn't say hate. They can be useful, but when they are overdone they just become annoying, especially when much of what is in meetings could be handled quicker and more effectively with a memo passed around the office or a group email.
Yeah, i here where you're coming from m8.
I had to take minutes for meetings of at least 50 mettings in my last job that were completely unnecessarily.