Hundreds of small, autonomous agencies act out a horrifying parody of business life, each with a budget and agenda, competing to manufacture targets, action plans, advice centres, bids, training, and incessant, incestuous meetings.Money is frittered away on schemes that guarantee not to create wealth-generating companies.
Whether you meet them at an upcoming holiday party or have them dominating your meetings, incessant talkers present a challenge.
Even Madelyn Wils, poised owner/occupant of the showstopper abode, reflexively kicks off her funky denim sandals when she gets back from the latest in the incessant series of meetings she attends on TriBeCa's behalf.
The endless meetings, the incessant reporting, the answering to the latest political diktat.
Help your mind to wander by just saying no to the incessant and obtrusive number of meetings that come your way.
Presumably such attempts to explain things away would have a poor chance of survival if everyone ran around with skin rashes scratching themselves and fashion shoots and business meetings were accompanied by incessant scratching.
He got back on his emblematic bus, the Straight Talk Express, chatting with the few reporters who continued to cover him and working to persuade the state's voters one by one in a seemingly incessant stream of town-hall-style meetings.
Mr. Mulkins was so annoyed by the racket outside his apartment on East Fifth Street near the Bowery that he started attending meetings in hope of curbing the incessant noise from the bars that increasingly define his neighborhood.
The Dardennes have little interest in psychology; their approach is to report on actions (incessant movements around Liège, money and keys changing hands in brief meetings) and to allow us to draw our own conclusions.
One that could fill my mind with rich, fluid conversations and a wholesome dialogue that would stretch the boundaries of thought, dreams, and focus beyond the incessant stream of work emails, spreadsheets, product road maps, revenue targets, and meetings.
