Bill Gates At "Work"

How I Work: Bill Gates
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/gates_howiwork_fortune/

Days are often filled with meetings. It's a nice luxury to get some time to go write up my thoughts or follow up on meetings during the day. But sometimes that doesn't happen. So then it's great after the kids go to bed to be able to just sit at home and go through whatever e-mail I didn't get to. If the entire week is very busy, it's the weekend when I'll send the long, thoughtful pieces of e-mail. When people come in Monday morning, they'll see that I've been quite busy— they'll have a lot of e-mail.

It amazes me how clueless the world's richest man can be. Basically, he spends his days reading and writing emails and having meetings. This is the bulk of what middle managers do all day long. They basically waste each other's time.

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