Forbes: "Young managers have destroyed the culture of meetings"

In the old days, a normal American manager held meetings up to 30 hours a week. Actually, this is still the norm in old-fashioned companies, where they have not yet introduced newfangled things like IM, Twitter and blogs. But young, technically educated managers come to high positions in large companies and completely change the existing culture, laments the magazine Forbes.

It is terrible to imagine: it has reached the point that at some firms the number of offline meetings has decreased to 2 (two) hours per week. The rest of the time, managers communicate via the Internet: a continuous stream of discussions goes via email, IM and in social media of internal use.

With this approach, the corporate culture also changes. Instead of the old model of total control, the principle of trust is used, when each employee works relatively autonomously. Professionals of the older generation do not feel very comfortable in such an atmosphere.