What ever happened to being on time. I believe enough productivity is lost waiting for others in the US economy alone to make up the national deficit. How many times have you been in a room with 5-6 others waiting for the prima donna to show up to only have them show up and dictate a faster meeting tempo because they were late? How many times were you in a meeting when the same prima donna was either checking phone or pc email and/or texting while important topics were under discussion. And the worst, how many times did prima donna stop the meeting to take a call from "someone important". Good thing we don't count.
This has become the scurge of the American executive. I was once in a meeting when the VP stood up during the meeting to say he just saw a great internet article on the topic being discussed. What he didn't realize was that the meeting organizer was discussing that same article when he stood up. Doh! I find this abuse of other people's time as the most insulting behavior in business today. Don't give me this idea that people can work on seven different mediums at once, most people can not pay appropriate attention to one medium at a time.
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