Among the many things that trouble our world is the proliferation of meetings. In many professions of little significance, leaving out, perhaps, the lawyer, the doctor, and the educator (excepting the administrators), meetings for the sake of meetings appears to be the order of the day.
It has been my lonely role to rebel. I rose to my peak within my government profession at the tender age of 34. I was prevented from further advancement by the requirement of entering into senior executive service, which is to say, abandoning any pretense of useful work and descending into the murky swamp of administration with the attendant, all-....