I have to confess, having spent a little bit of time on said committee several years back, that this was probably the most exhausting I have experienced from the multitude I have been on. There were no standing orders (although the chair has improved significantly in an informal manner in this regard over the years), and most irritating there is very little in the way of standing procedures or policy. So each and every item of correspondence is evaluated at each committee meeting.
It is most inefficient activity imaginable. Every case becomes a special case, with the worst possible level of opportunity cost. It is little wonder the organisation struggles in effectiveness when all the time is spent in meetings!
Perhaps the committee members are secretly Aos Sí, and are actually immortals who have a different concept of time to mere humans.
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Date: 2012-10-01 10:03 am (UTC)It is most inefficient activity imaginable. Every case becomes a special case, with the worst possible level of opportunity cost. It is little wonder the organisation struggles in effectiveness when all the time is spent in meetings!
Perhaps the committee members are secretly Aos Sí, and are actually immortals who have a different concept of time to mere humans.