This practical guied details ten key principles that will profoundly change the way you think about, organize, and lead the meetings that matter most. Rather than trying to change anyone's behavior, Weisbord and Janoff show you how to change the conditions under which people interact. By doing less, you help others do more. With examples from around the world, and practical tips and exercises in every chapter, Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! You many new techniques for helping people discover common ground, make productive use of dissension, and take responsibility for action.

 

Marvin Weisbord is a fellow of the World Acaemy of Productivity Science and is the author of Organizational Diagnosis, Productive Workplaces Revisited, and Discovering Common Ground.

Sandra Janoff, PhD, is an international consultant, psychologist, coau-thor, with Marvin Weisbord, of Future Search: An Action Guide. Weisbord and Janoff are co-directors of the future Search Network, a global volunteer service collaborative.

 

“ I have worked with Marvin and Sandra for almost a decade now in Northern Ireland where meetings can be, without being too dramatic, a question of life and death. Their techniques for bringing people from vastly different perspectives together in Search of a common goal make powerful tools for helping to embed the practices necessary to peace.”

-Aideen McGinley, Permanent Secretary, Department for Employment and Learning, Government of Northern Ireland

“A must for Ieaders and facilitators of meetings where dialogue is wanted and people expect to have influence. Weisbord and Janoff take a quantum Ieap over all the books on meeting management by proposing easy-to-apply principles that help leaders work with differences and gain commitment. Their ‘less is more' philosophy is a refreshing reversal of the trend toward pages and pages of prescriptions.”

-Billie Alban and Barbara Bunker, coauthors of The Handbook of Large Group Methods

“Wesbord and Janoff taught us to have the kind of meetings we'ws always dreamed of! We have learned about our capacity to address the really big tasks with all our right resources. And with inspiration and respect!”

-Josephine Rydberg-Dumont, Managing Director, IKEA of Sweden

“A remarkably unique and clear method for creating for creating conditions for dialogue that brings out the best in people. It has forever changed the we run meetings,”

-Richard Allan Aronson, MD, MPH, Maternal and Child Health Medical Director, State of Maine , Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics