Monday, June 15, 2020

Everybody has the same size box

--- Michael Hsu, quoted in Business Travel Won’t Be Taking Off Soon Amid Coronavirus, Wall Street Journal, 15 June 2020

From the article
Michael Hsu, chief executive of Kimberly-Clark Corp., the maker of Cottonelle toilet paper, said he has found Zoom calls more effective than some in-person meetings with his executive team. In face-to-face executive roundtables, people fidget and look at their phones, he said, but on Zoom people are forced to be attentive. Mr. Hsu said he also finds such meetings to be more “egalitarian” because no one is at the head of the table, so executives speak up more often and more candidly.

Everybody has the same size box,” he said.