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The intentions behind the rules are noble but any organization I have been a part of which runs on them ends up being some group who have mastered the rules usi
by jshaqaw 7y ago
The intentions behind the rules are noble but any organization I have been a part of which runs on them ends up being some group who have mastered the rules using them to torture some other subset who are there just trying to get something substantive achieved.
- RodgerTheGreat 7y agoThere is a certain personality type which seems attracted to Robert's Rules as a sort of diceless pen-and-paper roleplaying game. Bureaucracy and ritual become their own ends. If you get too many of this sort of person in a meeting, it is virtually impossible to accomplish anything.
- bluGill 7y agoWhich is why it is important that somebody you trust on your side reads the rules - the entire thing - and carries the book with the to all meetings. That person might have to be you.