How does one spend two days in Napa Valley during a spectacular fall weekend and never leave a board meeting? It becomes an inconceivable distraction sitting around a dark windowless board room viewing a complicated agenda while paradise calls you like a temptress to an escape only a few feet from your reach. Only while driving back to San Francisco did I fully appreciate how much did I miss. I’m beginning to see a subtle shift in my priorities from civic commitment to self indulgence.
“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”
Alain van der Heide
Alain van der Heide
