They're on a corporate retreat. That, at least, has always been my impression after hearing tales of so-called strategy sessions held at Hawaiian golf resorts and corporate strategy weekends taking place in Las Vegas.
Most American workers agree that the single greatest waste of their time is attending meetings.
Must be something else, or those executives wouldn't be smiling. Nikki Wheeler took a job this summer as public relations manager for ProSavvy, a small but rapidly growing Internet firm based in Englewood, Colo., that matches consultants with business clients. I was just introduced to these people the day before and now my boss wants me to schlep off to the mountains of Colorado on horseback with them for a team-building exercise. And no, Wheeler does not ride, and nobody asked if she did during the job interview. That impression disappeared by the next afternoon, when she found herself on the back of a very large and uncommunicative animal whose name she can't recall, which probably says something.