Other People's Issues can really throw me off my game.
I've worked with a number of people who seem to have Attention Surplus Syndrome. And man, when they tweak over irrelevant facts, it makes me insane.
At the end of the day, 75 minutes debating whether the second bullet is or is not truly the second most important point of the slide really doesn't change the outcome of the company. 75 minutes is about 65 minutes too long to figure that one out. So we sit there and I twitch and tweak and play with my phone while other people discuss the relative importance of the bullet order. And over the years, people seem to accept that it's just part of my deal. I tune out when this stuff starts.
But I never really understood why I could get so OUTRAGED at people for wasting my time or for focusing on totally irrelevant things. Because for me, this morning's reaction to whether or not we wanted to say global or not would typically be brutal. It would have left me with a loss of hours on end, not just because of the 47 minute drama over whether or not we were truly global, but because I would have not been able to go back to the rest of the tasks at hand for a while.
That said, I still think 5 days of 8 hour sessions is excessive for a 12 slide presentation.
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