When it comes to meetings, I am told that among my management peers, I have the reputation of having a structure fetish. I insist on an agenda and notes for every meeting (except confidential one-on-ones), and on cross-references to existing documentation, applicable issues tracked in an issue tracker, or wiki pages.
It is a tragedy that each and every #gathering of people goes by the umbrella term of "#meeting" now.
There is a huge number of formats we can pick the most suitable from, depending on the intended #outcome. They're requiring different amounts of #ceremony.
I'd rather widen my #facilitation skills than bash the "meeting" straw man.
Exactly. Remember in #Memento, when they did the #experiments on Sammy Jankis, giving him electric shocks to see if he ever learned to avoid those objects even though he couldn't make memories normally?
Our government is Sammy Jankis. Minus Stephen #Tobolowsky's charm.
Every spring, there are floods somewhere in North America. Maybe the Red River that flows up through North Dakota to Winnipeg and beyond. Maybe the winter snowpack is heavy and melts quickly in the Rockies, flooding out parts of B.C. Maybe torrential rains in Atlantic areas cause overland flooding throughout Quebec.
And it incentivizes such building in high-risk areas, guaranteeing future losses, and the cycle starts anew.
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's partner, famously said "Show me the incentives, and I'll show you the outcome."
It's true here. Incentivize building on flood plains and other high-risk areas by subsidizing or socializing the true costs of doing so, and you get more of the high-risk behaviour, and more losses.