Take it if you dare! This normative apparatus is designed to give some idea of where your organization is in respect to 21st century management.

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This document was prepared as  "instant advice" for a potential client. Your organization might also suffer from the very common problem at issue.

Because of the circumstances under which this was written, it is not as serious and as specific as what you would get under our Instant Consulting service, being somewhat on the humorous  side and rather general in suggestions. However, it should give an idea of how this process works.

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A PowerPoint piece designed as a kind of "thought experiment": Can the basis of all supervisory/management principles be conveyed in fifteen minutes in one set of guidelines? Of course, the real answer is "no". But this document, written for a very backward organization, may give some food for thought.

This piece was drafted for an OD intervention that we designed and managed. In our view, one of the most important cultural improvements than any organization can make is to get away from an ineffective style for meetings. Having ground rules is a good way to promote such change. 

Of course such material should be developed individuals involved so as to meet specific organizational needs, but we think this item provides a useful sample. The idea behind this PowerPoint (admittedly an often abused format) version is that the separate pagination allows the group to focus on one particular guide at each meeting for learning purposes in the initial stage of applying the ground rules.

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