Work Environment in USA

I have been going around the different offices to meet with different people. The office environment in US seems quite diffent yet the same. All offices contained books. A few books caught my attention. Good to Great is ubiquitous. It must be because KC is one of the good to great company during the reign of Darwin Smith. Another constant theme is books on meetings. "Death by Meeting", "Get the Best out of Meetings", etc. It seems like meeting is a way of life here. Big corporation work by going to meetings. The more the layers of hierachy, the more meetings needed to communicate through the chain of commands. Middle managers become the communication pipeline and the glue that keep the organization together.