John Godfrey-- jgodfrey@werple.net.au suggested:
Anybody who manages to successfully introduce this to a corporate world
ruled by time management systems dividing time into 15 minute chunks
deserves a prize. It might be possible however to encourage people to
take a "pseudo" decision and mull over it for a week before the next
meeting. Somehow there needs to be a mechanism to provoke solitary
deliberation though. Perhaps ask that everyone sends "journal jottings"
every couple of days to a secretary who demands the input but does not
circulate or distribute anything except back to the author. Tricky...
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Robert E Adams <ac200@ccn.cs.dal.ca>
An old friend was assembling staff and programs from
other schools and colleges into a new college. As you
can imagine, there were a lot of conflicting ideas
about what the institution should be.
He stamped D R A F T on every proposal, every memo
dealing with the future shape of the new institution.
Because they were not final, he was able to keep them
brief, in point form, and very readable.
He was not being cowardly. Instead, he was deliberately
leaving the idea out there for a few days for people to
digest. If no-one reacted positively, if no actions were
seen, he quietly withdrew the memo from circulation. If
the idea was taken up, he left the paper in circulation.
Sometimes the same document was still being reread and
referred to a couple of years later. It was stil stamped
D R A F T, but it had informally become policy that
everyone had adopted.
Bob
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