Not because it was complex, but because he was trying to convince himself it existed.
“I facilitate stakeholder alignment across cross-functional workstreams,” he said. Then laughed, because even he didn’t know what that meant.
He’s not alone.
As broke as NZ now is, corporates and government departments are still overrun with such people. They attend meetings about meetings.
They create PowerPoints that no one reads, which get shared in emails no one opens, which generate tasks that don’t need doing.
The pandemic lockdowns pulled back the curtain, just for a moment.
Some people’s entire roles evaporated when they couldn’t physically attend meetings.
