Stand-up meetings are part of a fast-moving tech culture in which sitting has become synonymous with sloth. The object is to eliminate long-winded confabs where participants pontificate, play Angry Birds on their cellphones or tune out.
Angry birds ? The Monday morning meetings were my official Harpoonplaytime... (fraaaack... it's no longer sold as a game... like... wtf !?)
Some military leaders did it during World War I, according to Allen Bluedorn, a business professor at the University of Missouri.
Who might also be aware that chairs were quite often a luxury in the trenches. And before powerpoint you had to move little toy soldiers over gigantic maps to explain what you meant to do, which is not something easy to do with your ass deep in an Aeron chair...
