Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Work Sharing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 8/22/2003 5:09 PM, "Mac & Sandy Thomson" <ganesh [at] rmi.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure that our team meetings all run as well as they could and that's
> an energy drain.  I think the solution is to learn how to run better
> meetings and to get as much work done outside of meetings as possible
> (email, delegation to individual team members, etc).

One of the consistent problems I see with meetings is that people do not
come prepared and do no work between meetings. Team meetings actually run
themselves fairly well when the participants arrive prepared and ready to
move forward.

Too often those most fond of meetings use them as substitutes for work
between meetings.

My earlier point was that this kind of behavior often gives consensus a bad
name when consensus is not the problem. The problem is lack of preparation
and lack of clarity in defining one's own position on the issue under
discussion.

In majority rule, the majority can just ignore people who arrive unprepared.
In consensus, one can't. But the problem is still people arriving
unprepared, not consensus.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

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