July 2009
5 posts
outside every conference room at oreilly media
meeting guidelines:
before a meeting….
1. clarify the purpose
2. make sure youve got the right people and everyone is prepared
3. prepare outcomes and agenda in advance
4. for problem-solving and decision making, prepare an assessment ahead of time and present your recommendations
5. create a strawman in advance to give people a plat to start from
during a meeting…
1. start...
the colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard.
people can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them....
