Management by Bad Papers

In the plane next to me where to guys obviously preparing for a meeting with their headquarter bosses. Both were very senior, cool and focused, shuffling through a 50-slide long powerpoint presentation which they as it seemed had never seen before.
The presentation was really bad - just listing figures and timelines without any real content: no problem descriptions, no targets, no meaningful titles - and they had no idea what was going on.

They looked important, and the project described in the slides looked expensive: two years, three consulting companies, and it was about restructuring.

I don´t know how the story ended, but that's a sad and common way to run businesses. Monkeys who are far away from the business aggregate facts and figures for other monkeys who are even further away and should discuss it with the top monkeys who now neither have any data nor any idea of what they should do.
And somebody gets paid for this. Because, to be honest: Is there any other way how to do business? Probably not, if you are heading for global reach and impact. But probably there is a way of doing business differently; must be.