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Darren Woolley, over at P3, has also noticed the busy-ness meme. You know the one: we are so busy as the moment, flat out. In fact I’ve noticed that people are greeting each other differently these days. It goes something like this:
“Hi Bob, how’s it going?”
“Busy, very busy. Hardly got time to scratch.”
“Yeh, me too. Flat out.”
“Time for a coffee?”
“Sure thing.”
We all say we are busy. It’s almost a badge of honour. I wonder what would happen if you said, “I have a bit of free time at the moment. It’s just the way I like it.”
Anyway, Darren goes on list some things that are wrong with business meetings and gives us some ideas on how to get more out of meetings. Well worth a read.
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Refreshingly, Bob Dick answered the "How has your day been?" with "Mercilessly Uneventful".
I liked that one. :)
Cheers,
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew Rixon at September 2, 2006 11:39 AM
Nice observation. I agree about the "importance" issue.
There is also a self-defence issue. If you are an employee and you answer: "Not busy" then someone might give you a huge stack of work!
In the context of answering requests for help, the response "I'm busy" really means "What you are asking is not important".
Posted by: Matt Moore at September 2, 2006 12:56 PM