Thursday, June 17, 2010

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love "notebook in this shareholder-meeting" ... Why

... of a first: I like meeting also not particularly. I prefer to work. Given the choice, 2 hours to accept help desk calls of unfriendly, irritated and choleric users or for the same period a Meeting to attend, I would choose almost always for the caller - just because then I could definitely make a difference and have helped to achieve something concrete. Of course one can not generally say about all the meetings - but unfortunately were only 30% of all my previously experienced really productive and effective. That there were no more, was of course mostly in the wrong / bad planning ("too many cooks spoil the broth", "Bremser place decision makers"), disorganization ("time frame to finish far too long") or other reasons which I here rather not perform. But what I increasingly sour in recent months, regurgitates, the bad habit on account of which ich mich heute an Euch wende: 8 von 10 Teilnehmern starren während des Meetings gebannt auf ihre Notebooks, checken Mails und täuschen lebensnotwendige Arbeiten vor (auch wenn sie in Wirklichkeit Solitaire spielen oder auf Facebook surfen). Dazu einige Beobachtungen und Anmerkungen:
  • Der Einzige, der während eines Meetings oder einer Präsentation sein Notebook aufgeklappt haben muss, ist der Vortragende (bzw. das arme Schwein, welches Protokoll schreiben muss). Wer sich nicht daran hält, zeigt sein Desinteresse dermaßen deutlich, dass er lieber gleich draußen bleiben sollte. Ich packe auch nicht währenddessen den SPIEGEL oder ein Buch aus und lese darin
  • Eventuell hat Euch mal jemand gesagt, dass man "wichtig" und "unentbehrlich" wirkt, wenn man im Meeting mit gerunzelter Stirn und angespanntem Gesichtsausdruck seine Mails liest - lasst mich das bitte korrigieren: Es wirkt lächerlich und extrem unhöflich! Wer wirklich "wichtig" ist, hat Leute, die seine Aufgaben für die Dauer des Meetings übernehmen. Ein (zum Glück mittlerweile ehemaliger) Kollege trieb das perfekt auf die Spitze: Monatelang wunderte ich mich in diversen "Jour Fixes" (Unwort!) über ihn, wie er mir gegenüber sitzend kopfschüttelnd seine Klicks kommentierte, die er auf seinem Notebook ausführte. Er wirkte wie jemand, der gerade eine Absage auf seine Vorschläge zur Nahost-Politik erhalten hatte. Irgendwann setze ich mich mal neben ihn und bemerkte, dass er nichts weiter tat, als seinen Posteingang immer wieder zu minimieren und maximieren - und bei jedem zweiten Klick laut seufzte oder den Kopf schüttelte. Eventuell tat ihm das Ganze ja wirklich physisch weh, daher beugte ich mich irgendwann mal zu ihm rüber und murmelte mitfühlend: "Ganz schön anstrengend, oder?" Danach achtete er immer sorgfältig darauf, nicht mehr neben mir zu sitzen
  • Eventuell habt Ihr schon einmal mitbekommen, dass Kindern vor dem Unterrichtsbeginn das Handy seitens der Lehrkörper konfisziert wird - das soll bewirken, dass dem Vortragenden zugehört wird. Natürlich kann man das geistige Abschalten der Rezipienten damit nicht ausschließen - aber es erfolgt dann eben zumindest subtil und nicht so offensichtlich ignorant. Aus dem selben Grund spreche ich das auch bei allen Schulungen/Präsentationen, die ich halte, direkt an, denn:
  • Im Gegensatz zu besagten Schulkindern, denen eine Aussage wie "Ich habe jetzt aber gar keine Lust auf den Unterricht, ich möchte lieber SMS schreiben!" wenig bringen würde, könntet Ihr ja Eure Meeting-Teilnahme einfach vorher absagen. Scheitern tut dies in der Regel aber an triftigen Gründen oder mangelndem Selbstbewusstsein, oder?
In diesem Sinne: Ihr könnt gerne Eure Köpfe abschalten, aber dann bitte auch Eure Notebooks!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

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vuvuzelas nerve

Gestern begann die Fußball-WM in Südafrika und was I feared was to happen: The live broadcasts are (completely independent of the playful quality of the encounters) a disaster. The reason for the awful " vuvuzelas " are - trumpet-like sound generator, which because of its design, however, can elicit even rounder than 3 pitches - they have to do with musical instruments, therefore, to about as much as Schwäbisch with High German.

that things over 120 DB-speaker and thus cause hearing damage is long since known and affected me much because I found the games so thank god not in the stadium, but in front of TV pursue - including public viewing I avoid self-evident because many of my countrymen to follow the mindless herd mentality and put their lack of individuality also been loudly trumpeting the test. But even if I'm going to wear in the living room certainly no sudden loss of hearing about it, I realize that I feel this constant monotonous noise (somewhere between bees and elephant herd) pretty much on the nerves. While offering "Sky Sports" its paying viewers to the commentator by Option to hide (which I at dull nerve jaws as Fritz von Thurn und Taxis do always like to be), but it is not "Vuvuzela-OFF" button - although technically not problem would be - since their frequency could be fairly easily filter away . (Addendum: Since 16 June Sky has yet to such an option: 1x with 1x vuvuzelas and without - refuse it works well)

FIFA president Joseph Blatter, incidentally, was to ban the vuvuzelas (which since the last Confederations Cup several players coaches and officials called for) because they are "part of African culture" and that they ban "discriminatory" would be. Here are a few counter-arguments:
  • That the Vuvuzela ( the originally imported from the U.S. and China was and its first significant South African sales in the 90's started), "African heritage" supposed to be is highly ridiculous. Something that only known for more than 10 years, may not "heritage" are
  • The game is blown broken, because the players listen to the instructions of their coach can not and even the players do not differ verbal communication lead longer (like the Mexican team yesterday evening confirmed). More and more players (which are now sometimes the most important actors of this World Cup and have been working for years at this tournament) indicate that they are annoyed by the level and duration after the match, half-deaf in the cabins were. So what is the benefit or meaning, the mood / performance of the best football player in the world to impair? Although some believe it will not: Football takes in the head instead and this includes communication
  • The atmosphere in the stadium is completely botched. In this blog post criticized a South African editor, that the "songs" and "Drums / Rhyhtmen" that made up always used the acoustics of a football game, was replaced by a monotonous tone unbearable volume. The result: No one "invented" more crowd chants and new battle cries because they can not hear anyway. The other existing acoustic dynamics of a football game will be completely destroyed. If a home team is playing badly, there are usually "dead silence" - for some action "is under Murmur through the stadium, "in attacks" a raging cauldron "in goals scored, there are" deafening cheers "- all that is gone - Stevie Wonder would have no chance anyway mitzubekommen that a goal falls short, no one can his team anymore. "forward whip"
  • The same unspeakable "Gas-horn", which were used earlier in the soccer stadiums have long prohibited. Why, because they can damage hearing. No one would dream, to whine, but that the " a part of European culture "and that they obtained by their ban" discrimination "would
  • If a nation is hosting a World Cup, should they be more or less hospitable - as far as this point. It so nobody minds when South Africa fans blow the game against France in their vuvuzelas - so that they help, according to her coach and her team even. But why they do so in Greece - South Korea? At the World Cup includes the chants of all participating nations - and not just a repetitive noise duration
  • way, it is not "typically German" to demand a ban on these "instruments" (or to ban them for public viewing) but a international demand. are online petitions of this kind are currently available in all countries, whose teams participate in the World Cup (even in South Africa). In addition, issued by the South African Rugby Union to vuvuzelas already a stadium ban for local rugby games - then this should be possible for football
And what I especially wonder: what drives the duration of winds at? I have blown himself a few times in such a thing when my son won it in the supermarket by Scratch: It's quite tiring for the lungs and lips, as a reasonably straight tone to hold for a few seconds. It was not a dream, which account for over 90 minutes (or, if you only 10 minutes) too long - what have I since then the game itself? I pay for admission but not a stadium court, just to bring myself to order the match? But das ist wohl so eine dieser Fragen, auf die man keine Antwort bekommt - es sei denn, ich würde sie einem Fan in Südafrika stellen, der sich aber sicher nicht auf diesen Blog verirren wird …

PS. (3 Tage später) Mittlerweile habe ich Zuschriften von aktiven Trötern erhalten. Als Antwort auf meine Frage schreiben sie: "Macht doch Spaß!". Ihnen möchte ich erwidern: Furzen kann auch Spaß machen - aber nicht, wenn es 50.000 Leute gleichzeitig tun