grantgoddard
"Did you enjoy your day off yesterday?" a member of my team asked me one morning.
"Yesterday?" I enquired, slightly confused.
"Yes," he continued. "You weren't in your office all day so we guessed you had taken the day off."
Ah! Now it began to make more sense.
"Unfortunately, I was not off yesterday," I replied. "I was in meetings all day in the boardroom upstairs."
That was true. It had been just one of a multitude of similar days when, from my arrival at eight until evening, I had bounced from one meeting to another, and then another. Had I even eaten lunch? We were launching a new London radio station, 'KISS 100 FM', where I was the only member of the management team with prior commercial radio experience. My page-a-day diary was necessarily crammed with all sorts of meetings. In some I had to make presentations, some I had to chair and some I had to minute. For many months, there never seemed time to do real 'work' in my job because of all these meetings.