I often find myself torn between “Wow large organizations are astoundingly incompetent” and “On the other hand, logistics underlies basically everything around me.”https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1080637153539952647 …
-
Yep. I often think about this when technical people complain about meetings. I do think better meetings are often possible, but it's subtle what they're about: achieving co-ordination, common knowledge, uncovering what the group doesn't know it doesn't know, etc.
Many of these seem like processes which are inherently inefficient.
-
-
Sunstein and Hastie have a nice accessible book (a few years old now) summarizing empirical research on making groups smarter. (https://www.amazon.com/Wiser-Getting-Beyond-Groupthink-Smarter/dp/1422122999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546560021&sr=8-1&keywords=wiser …)
-
A more recent and technical book on meeting science: (https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Handbook-Meeting-Handbooks-Psychology/dp/1107646944/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1546560137&sr=1-1&keywords=meeting+science …)
- 4 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
That could be an interesting set of experiments with meetings. Injecting chaos into meetings through various types of disruptions or surprises.
End of conversation
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.