What is it about presentations and spreadsheets that make managers so happy?
Why do so many people spend so much time making presentations and spreadsheets that are superfluous to a certain assignment?
I just don’t get it.
So, we have this workflow, a workflow with these real pretty lines and boxes all connected to each other about getting product information from a writer to the final stage before publishing as a brochure or flyer. Are you kidding me?
Why can’t we just send the copy to the graphic designer after copy approval, and ask him or her to lay out the brochure or flyer?
Help me, here.
I’ve been writing for most of life, all sorts of product information, internal magazine articles, Web content, and no one has ever asked me to discuss a content workflow in a staff meeting. But, discuss we did.
So, not only was the workflow graphic a waste of time, we had to waste more time discussing this. I guess no one, except me, thought if the person who had developed the graphic in the first place had been spending her time writing the brochure as she was assigned, we’d be closer to wrapping up this assignment.
All of this talk and all of these meetings about all of these various topics of who is going to do what and how they’re going to do them and what is the process for that person doing them and on and on and on. Does anyone do any work anymore? Or, is the goal now to just talk about doing the work for hours and hours over the course of numerous meetings and discussions and wait until the bitter end when a manager asks if the assignment has been completed?
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