The plant managers of ABC Corporation's five plants have met ata common location at 8:00 am every Monday morning for 20 years. Thepeople serving as plant managers have changed several times duringthis period, but the meeting has not. Every Monday morning all fiveplant managers are seated around a conference table in the homeoffice. It is not uncommon for the managers to have no pressingbusiness to discuss and the meeting amounts to nothing more than aMonday morning coffee session. Not only is the meetinginconvenient, but it is also costly, time-consuming, andoccasionally interferes with the work of the plant managers.Finally, one of the plant managers had had enough. He decided toconduct a cost-benefit analysis of the meeting. When he presentedit at a meeting of the plant managers, ABC's CEO and the otherplant managers were shocked to learn that the company could have$50,000 if the managers met only when there was pressing businessto discuss.
Discuss the following question:
How does this case illustrate the need to constantly review thestatus quo and ask "Why"?
