Meeting Metrics

Random thoughts while attending a stupider-than-usual meeting:

• Here's a barometer for managers - do they use harsh language for their own mistakes, and gentle language for others' mistakes, or vice-versa?

• ...and here's a meeting metric - every time someone says or does something that makes you want to crush your own soul, put a hash mark down on your meeting notes. You can then measure the pain of a meeting quantitatively in units of soul crushings per hour (SC/hr). Over time, you can then look for corollations between SC/hr and meeting attendees, topics or facilitators.