Secret Agendas

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Buckminster Fuller.

It's the age of technology. Almost everyone has a smartphone these days. I don't know about Ghanaians but it seems students especially have something against using technology when the topic is on productive agenda.

Secret Agendas?

Leaders schedule a meeting, face to face. The secret agenda people behave like the FBI do about witnesses in the witness protection program when they've something to lose. You are the Mafia that's after that snitch. You ask, What's on the agenda for this meeting? 

“You'll know when you get there.”

That's the answer you get. Let me point out that this question was asked in the same WhatsApp group you created for this purpose. But unless you see nose masks and eyebrows, Agenda is undercover.

Then there's the other situation. Your presence is not required. A simple phone call could get you all the information you need. You have useful contacts. You have protocol.

“No, we have to go and ask them physically.”

That's how we know we're serious about this.

There's this other leader who is all for online meetings. What do they hear? 

Online? Nooooo. We have data bundles, we have smartphones but online? Noooo. Unless we trek to the meeting place, where we're going to be in close quarters with people, there is no meeting.

Ever been a key player in any of these situations?

Were you for the face-to-face team or the we can-do-all-of-this-from-our-room team?

If you're for face to face, please let me understand. What is it that you have against technology? What did technology ever do to you?

If it's a meeting of hearts, where you need to have intense eye contact and touches, face to face is ideal. Where else can you have a filter free interaction? I know, make-up may be in the way. 

But a meeting where all that's required is information and attention? We might just as well lose all our technology if we are going to waste our time and money.