Power structures in meetings

Tuesday 10 February 2004This is close to 21 years old. Be careful.

Rands writes about what’s really going on in meetings: Agenda Detection. This is a very cynical view of the nature of meetings, but I don’t think it is wrong. It’s a little stark as a way of viewing people you actually have to deal with every day, but a useful dimension to explore when trying to understand what’s going on when half a dozen people sequester themselves around a table.

Simply put, Agenda Detection is the ability to discern:

  1. Typical meetings roles and how meeting participants assume them
  2. Explanation of what these distinct meetings roles want out of a meeting
  3. How to use this understanding to get the hell out of the meeting as quickly as possible.

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