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simplicity

by Dave Thomas
June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 15m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Practice 5Meetings, Bloody Meetings

At the risk of channeling Donald Rumsfeld, for any particular person there are:

  1. Things they know that they know.
  2. Things they know that they don’t know.
  3. Things they don’t know that they don’t know.

The overall hope when running a meeting is that people in the first group will help enlighten those in groups two and three, and along the way, everyone will learn something.

The reality, though, is that meetings are often about those in groups one and three arguing about their personal realities, and those in group two catching up on their social media.

Sometimes a meeting is an appropriate tool. Most of the time, though, the meetings we hold are at best a waste of time and at worst a source of misinformation, confusion, ...

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ISBN: 9798888651704