Message #47454

[peana]

I can still see a role for someone to organise bossie - he certainly wouldn't have time to try and co-ordinate a meeting with more than a handful of attendees.  Even if in future there is some fantastic hardware or software that makes VC and remote working a breeze, there's no machine that can negotiate getting an hour slot in an already jam-packed diary!  

I've organised 3-way VCs between different offices around the globe, but I think it would be very difficult for a chairman to run a meeting with any more external links.  Also, when you're trying to organise a meeting across 3 time zones (UK, Australia, US) it needs a real person to try and persuade an attendee to accept a start time of 2300 or 0500.

There are many things that our bossies CAN do for themselves, but it's not always cost effective for them to spend their time in this way.  Something about monkeys and organ-grinders comes to mind, but I can't remember the quote!