Some probably think that the phrase “More with Less” is a recent invention but I was brutally hit with it in the 1990s. As my team around me was constantly shrinking the workload was constantly increasing. The above term was almost nauseous to me during that time.

I wish I could have come up with some of the things in the Dilbert cartoon at the time. The last couple of years of my corporate life were not pleasant. I was working sixty hour weeks to do “more with less” (less meaning I was never paid for the extra hours!).

No there never were less meetings or micro-management; I got plenty extra of that. I left the corporate world almost eleven years ago but I am pretty sure pretty much the same thing is happening today.  This goes back to a previous post about the three legged corporate stool. See it at http://whatwouldwillsay.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/about-the-bailout/ The employee leg of the stool was constantly being shortened and it hasn’t stopped even now.

But what do I know