Perfecting Collective Time Wasting

1-Join or form a committee in which
you make yourself indispensable.

2-Attach a status to office holders
that makes lay members deferential
and hobbles how officers work.

3-Invent buzz words for mechanisms
/procedures which flatter their hearers
which also obscure the work attempted,
and stretch beyond breaking point
the attention span of anyone
who is interested in finding out
what the words really mean.

4-Make consensus a point of pride,
so that whilst everybody appears
to agree with each other when together
privately they misunderstand the minutes,
but everyone is too ashamed to encourage
each other to deeply question matters.

This is how to make decision making
take four times longer than it should do,
and decisions null and void by the time
they are to be acted upon.
Similarly metaphor and simile are powerful
for obscuring inactivity.
 If there is a plan that might cause hope,
were effort applied to it, then that is how to kill it.
Instead suggest everyone fill in their expenses, twice over.