Say hello to the LITF chairman

Yesterday morning we had a 2-hour communications group all-hands meeting that ran long and encroached on the lunch hour. That upset me.

The meeting was led by my boss’s boss’s boss. This fellow is a true maverick—one of the smartest, fairest, most motivating, dynamic, insightful managers I’ve ever had the pleasure of working for. A born leader, he knows how to bring out the best in himself and in the people who work for him. I don’t know how he does it. A real diamond in the rough. Maybe one in ten thousand could wear the mantle of leadership as successfully as he does. Talk about a beacon of light in a dark cave. I hope that by studying him, I may someday attain one-tenth of his leadership skills.

Anyway, the goddamn meeting ran long, which was a result of the updates we received from the various communication process improvement task forces. Even with hunger gnawing at my innards, I was inspired—on the spot—to form a Lunch Improvement Task Force (LITF), for which I volunteered to serve as chair. The first order of business will be to draft the LITF charter.

So at 12:30 I returned to my cube and hurriedly ate my breaded chicken breast sandwich, which I’d prepared before leaving for work. It had jack cheese and lots of mayo on it. I also had some grapes and coffee. When I finished, I did not run down to the vending machine on the second floor and get Oreos (E10), peanut M&Ms (E5), nor a jumbo KitKat bar (D3).