Are you seeing Recession Insanity?

Has your company gone crazy? Has the recession driven everyone in Cubeland mad?

Has a plummeting stock price caused your CEO to suddenly want to sit in on every meeting, everywhere in the company, all at once? Is he now suddenly an expert in packaging, modeling, electronics, programming, coffee brewing and toilet repair? Is there nothing he doesn’t have an opinion on? Is he acting like a man about to be fired? Can you see the beads of cold sweat on his forehead?

Are you or co-workers flying 5 to 15 hours only to sit in on a 20 minute meetings in territories you didn’t even know your company did business in? Do you find yourself flying and flying to meeting after meeting, showing products, showing marketing plans, showing the bags under your eyes from weeks of jet lag?

Is your company inventing new processes and inventing processes to make new processes, with the hopes that there is a magical way to get all the work done that used to be done by a team that was 10% to 40% larger, you know, before the layoffs, back in the days of milk and honey, when your stock options and mortgage were not underwater?

Let me know. What’s going on at your company? What symptoms of Recession Insanity are you seeing?

I’d like to know that I’m not alone. Thanks!