Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Ten Principles, Six Techniques: A Summary

This book contains many rules, guidelines, tips, procedures, practices, and techniques for leading meetings. Over the years, we have noticed ourselves using certain ones repeatedly. We believe that if you learn to make these six moves, you will be able to handle almost anything that comes up.

We urge you to consider these suggestions only in relation to our 10 principles. You’ll have a much easier time with any of them when you make friends with anxiety, get used to projections, and see yourself as a dependable authority. You have little to gain using any of them if you don’t have the right people in the room.

1. To quickly establish a sense of the whole, go around a group and have people say where they ...