![]() ![]() ![]() Zimmerman dedicates her Robert’s Rules in Plain English “to everyone who has served as a member or leader of a group, and who has, at one time or another, felt ignorant, ineffectual, helpless, frustrated, repressed, or just plain bored. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), 356 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 49.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 87.67 7 Used from 56.60 7 New from 76. De Vries in The New Robert’s Rules of Order, “are one of the few things in life that are pursued relentlessly even though they provoke endless complaints of frustration, stress, wasted hours, and dissatisfaction with the outcome.” And Doris P. Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Modern Library Classics) Paperback Jby Marcel Proust (Author), D.J. David, in his 1937 Robert’s Rules Simplified, acknowledges that for some, Robert’s rules look like “a ‘bag of tricks’ with which a few members can run things to suit themselves.” In his Notes and Comments on Robert’s Rules, Jon Ericson acknowledges that, for many, “parliamentary procedure is that tricky, pedantic, officious, dull, boring, unfair system that tyrants use to suppress the rights of all us good folk.” “Meetings,” says Mary A. Its potential as both an effective tool and a bespoke weapon has long been a part of the book’s appeal. ![]() Sitting down at a committee table and placing an unopened, unread copy where others could see it is a power move all its own: an index of the paradoxically occult sway of ostensibly transparent procedure, a threat and a promise. Its talismanic power is such that an effective use of the book might not even require consultation. ![]()
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