Reality #10: Most decisions are made in hallway meetings
The “hallway meeting” is when 2 to 4 people meet in a hallway or by someones desk and discuss and/or make an important decision. These meetings are more productive and influential then any 1/2 hour long “meeting” with 10 attendees, all of them Executives who are too busy on their blackberries to actually pay attention at the meeting.
Examples of “hallway meeting” decisions:
- Who is working on the project
- Budgets
- Timing
- Who is getting promoted
- Who is getting fired
- Major client strategy
- Solutions that will “save our asses on this project”
Other forms of the “hallway meeting” are:
- The smoke break
- “Let’s go and have a coffee …”
- After work drinks
Tags: Reality of Working at an Ad Agency, the hallway meeting
May 31, 2008 at 1:56 am
My only worry with these types of meetings is when things go into he said she said mode and that’s when all hell breaks loose.