Ground rules

I left a comment the other day on Bob Sutton’s thoughtful post about what poorly-run meetings can indicate about the managers in charge. My comment was about Ground Rules, a very useful tool for meetings of all kinds.

Bob kindly took my comment and created a post around it. Please stop by his blog if you’re interested in ideas about Ground Rules; and please stay to read his other wide-ranging and excellent advice on creating better workplaces and better managers. I admire his work very much, and in fact have a notion to someday create a series of blog posts here that reflect on the items in his sidebar.

That’s how these ideas of new ways of working together will spread: as we all learn from each other, as we all become engaged in this great conversation about management, leadership, and being human in the midst of it all. So please, visit Bob’s blog and add your voice to the conversation; and come back to Humans At Work whenever you’d like to talk. There’s always a seat at this table. That is, in fact, one of my Ground Rules.