Dealing with Meetings You Can't Stand: Meet Less and Do More

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Balancing Participation with Air Traffic Control

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

—WALT DISNEY

To achieve Holographic Thinking, you need everyone’s participation. The problem that usually occurs in most meetings is that the more assertive people dominate the conversation and the passive people drop out. This results in ideas being pushed through by an assertive minority opinion that does not integrate the whole.

If there is no speaking order and people just speak whenever they want to instead of listening to what the current speaker is ...