When I worked for Nissan, I jokingly referred to myself as the Vice President of Showing Up.
It was a decidedly meeting-oriented culture. We'd have pre-meetings to discuss what would happen in the big meeting, then a post-meeting to dissect what just transpired. This was before the BlackBerry. It was a time when it was seriously un-macho to carry a weekly planner, so our administrative assistants would prepare an index card for us that laid out the daily ...