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RE: You've Got To Love The Bureaucracy
I've come to a similar conclusion about meetings.
The more an environment punishes mistakes without rewarding successes, the more popular meetings become.
They're a way of diffusing the responsibility into a larger group, so no individual has to worry about having been the person who made an actual decision.
That's a good point. Now that you mention it, when i questioned why a couple of bad decisions were made, the response i got was, "we had a meeting and..." or "we had a discussion and...".