Re: [73attendees] Attendance by country

[Ben Campbell <[e-mail]>]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Dean Willis wrote:

> My work would go down the crapper. Most of what I (usefully) do is  
> get two or three people with intractable positions into a face to  
> face situation and browbeat them into a compromise. That's Really  
> Hard remotely.

I think Dean is on to something, but maybe not what he intended.  
Getting people with contrary positions to compromise may be the _only_  
"useful" use of our face time. But we generalize that to mean "get  
work to move forward". Sometimes, the reason work is not moving  
forward is because you need to get people to compromise. But more  
often, it's because you are trying to get people to care.

If we would systematically deny agenda time to work that is failing to  
move forward because no one is reading/reviewing/writing drafts/etc,  
and limit it to work where people that do care need to compromise, we  
might not have so much trouble finding enough time in the traditional  
meeting schedule.


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