Company Meeting

I've been working with the IdentityMine India team for over 7 months now, and I was invited to their executive summit meeting where they discuss the higher level workings within the organization. It is one of the most important meetings of the year, and the entire companies future plans are determined at this meeting. I was very surprised to be invited to such an important event in the companies history, and of course I accepted the invitation.

Because of all the busy schedules of all the executives, it is very difficult to get everyone together in the same place. I was told that the easiest meeting place for executives to gather was on boats. I found that a little strange, but later I noticed it was happening everywhere.

Here is the boat we were scheduled to meet on:

 

After all the executives arrived, we started to travel down the backwater areas. I was told that this type of environment was to allow executives the creative freedom to assist in creating the corporate future of the company.

 

The first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of people I had never seen before. I guess these executives where in other offices stationed around India. many of the executives were new to IdentityMine, and I classified them as young executives. Here are some of the young executives in action. They brought a lot of creativity and energy to the discussions, but it was obvious to me they lacked the overall business savvy that the older executives had acquired from years of hard work.

 

The meeting was about to get started when we all noticed other executive summit meetings were going on. This one was for a movie studio, and they decided to have there meeting in the water. While other people were having them on sailboats.

 

One of the execs brought up a point of order in the meeting, that perhaps there was a better way to have the executive summit meeting. Were these other companies trying to leap frog into new areas of meeting places? Could these new meeting places spur more creative ideas which would make them more profitable? These question s became the subject of debate.

 

I noticed a smaller executive summit meeting near us, and they appeared to be debating the same issue.

 

At this point, everyone was a bit perplexed on what to do.

 

Regi, the head executive made the bold decision to break off into different groups to research the prospects of whether a new meeting should take place in the water, on a sailboat or elsewhere. All the executives thought this was  a great idea, and groups were formed.

Before the debates began, everyone took time out for lunch to get some energy for the important work ahead.

 

After lunch, the groups got together, and started to research the prospects of the validity of the current summit meeting place.

Franklin and Regi  discussing the area of meeting in the water.

 

Other executives discussing having the meeting on a sailboat.

 

More executives debating having the meeting on a fishing boat.

 

Another executive reading "Where to have your Executive Summit to make more profit".

 

The stress of the event got to this executive. He started yelling about having the meeting in the air, and then yelling, "I can fly. I can fly".

 

Other executives in the group had to pull him back into the boat. It was obvious to me that executives lead very stressful lives, and I was glad to not be one.

 

This group of executives debate having the meeting on a Chinese fishing net. It appears a smaller company of execs are also looking into the same idea.

 

This group of executives debate having the meeting on top of poles, as the birds seemed to doing that too.

 

Some of the execs talked to the captain of the boat for some ideas. His suggestion was to have the meeting on a small boat. A number of the executives thought that was a good idea as it would create the need for coordinated teamwork. So, the captain asked for a small boat to come, and they all got into the boat.

 

At that point, one of the executives saw something that changed the entire debate.

 

It appeared that one of IdentityMine's competitors was having an executive summit meeting on a cruise ship. Regi decided all the executives had gathered enough information, and it was time to gather all the information to come up with a plan. The boat stopped at Bolgatty Palace and dinner was served.

 

After the meal, everyone gathered to come up with a final assessment for the validity of the meeting.

 

This meeting was confidential, and I was not allowed to participate. So, I didn't find out what happened until the next day when I asked one of the young executives about the executive meeting minutes. They told me the executive summit meeting was declared a success because the "Cruise Ship" format of the meeting was declared the best over other ideas like "Sailboats, floating in the water, fishing boats,  Chinese Nets,  traditional boats,   or on top of poles".

When I asked if any future plans had been created for the future of IdentityMine India, I was told those plans had been postponed to another executive summit meeting on a "Cruise Ship".

I'm not really smart enough to understand the intricate working of the executive mind. So, I didn't question the results of the IdentityMine India executive summit meeting.

I did get some nice pics while all the executives were working hard on the validity of their existence: