November 2010
2 posts
The White Board Parable: A Chemical Approach.
Permanent markers are not supposed to be used on white boards. Among other things they contain nasty sounding compounds like xylene and toluene that make them particularly adhesive and tough to remove. When used on surfaces like cardboard boxes or cd’s they’re great for labeling. If used on whiteboards they’re a particularly big problem. In preparation for a meeting yesterday I went to erase the...
Too Much Harmony? A Radical Approach to Meetings.
I recently read an article about meetings and the importance of “dissent” and disagreement within them (http://www.thestrategyweb.com/meetings-and-the-importance-of-dissent) for the overall success and productivity of the meeting. One of the points the article’s author made was that meetings are often unsuccessful and unproductive because they seem to create a dynamic that is perfectly...