“We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”
C.S. Lewis, preface to "The Screwtape Letters", 1961
@futurebird Did this my first time in a growing company. I was foolish and young and thought we really were meant to do something.
As each of our breakout groups was working on "it's idea" for our assigned topic, the BSD came around and and "discussed" our topic.
It became clear that we as a breakout weren't there to come up with anything other than the piece of the pre-determined plan we'd been assigned -- seemingly on our own.
It was idea "dissemination" not "generation" at all.
@FirefighterGeek@futurebird I have a similar experience. Being unaware of corporate speak at the time we were asked to “blue sky” some new ideas. After coming up with some great ones we were told to implement them…with no new budget. Never fell for that again.
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And the top 6 groups will advance to the next round.
The rest of you - - - will be wounded per-man-and-womanently by me!
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that might be the intention-- but those who run mass meetings don't want to stir things up which is fine mostly, I rarely have the energy to do the stirring) a tendency to incorporate the general shape of the exercise, but not the spirit. Bland questions, not enough time.
Functionally? They are used more to break up long meetings, fill time, & to let people in big orgs get to know each other.
@futurebird@bencourtice Don’t they also afford a smaller social space for people who don’t feel comfortable speaking up in a large gathering, but do feel able to share thoughts in a more intimate setting? And a chance to let thoughts percolate, for those who are slower thinkers? I have interpreted this structure as being about inclusion more than anything else
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"Each group will get to read one section of the assigned article, and then we'll jigsaw when we come back together! Don't forget to use your color coded highlighters on the paper we printed out for everyone, we're practicing the Marking The Text AVID strategy"
@futurebird Did Sarah nominate a raporteur to take notes and summarise the discussion? Or does each breakout group spend the first 7½ mins arguing about that?
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