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Faizan
Watch any marching band in any parade and if you are standing close enough you will feel, as well as hear the clanging of the cymbals and the beating of the drums.
Watch any football game and on a particularly big hit, the replay will allow you to hear the noise of the impact between two players (and if you are in the stadium, you can hear it from farther away than you might expect).
Attend far too many meetings and you may feel the same sort of impact of words bouncing off of each other.
Maybe it shouldn't be a surprise. Because the Latin root words in percussion, concussion and discussion are all connected - literally translated to "a shaking."
We have a meeting to come together, to share ideas, to determine the best possible ideas and to come to agreement, and yet we often fall short of that goal. People leave unheard, unsatisfied and perhaps disillusioned. Should that surprise us if ideas and words are banging against each other, creating noise but more discord?
Try cutting a loaf of bread with scissors. The bread may be severed, but won't look very good. A bread knife is the right tool for the job. Try to reach the goals of most meetings with discussion and you will get the same, unsatisfying results. Like the scissors, discussion is the wrong tool.
What then is the bread knife of meetings?
Dialogue.
Let's expose dialogue to the same dictionary research we did with discussion. The word comes from the Greek roots - dia, or through, and logos, or words or meaning.
Watch any football game and on a particularly big hit, the replay will allow you to hear the noise of the impact between two players (and if you are in the stadium, you can hear it from farther away than you might expect).
Attend far too many meetings and you may feel the same sort of impact of words bouncing off of each other.
Maybe it shouldn't be a surprise. Because the Latin root words in percussion, concussion and discussion are all connected - literally translated to "a shaking."
We have a meeting to come together, to share ideas, to determine the best possible ideas and to come to agreement, and yet we often fall short of that goal. People leave unheard, unsatisfied and perhaps disillusioned. Should that surprise us if ideas and words are banging against each other, creating noise but more discord?
Try cutting a loaf of bread with scissors. The bread may be severed, but won't look very good. A bread knife is the right tool for the job. Try to reach the goals of most meetings with discussion and you will get the same, unsatisfying results. Like the scissors, discussion is the wrong tool.
What then is the bread knife of meetings?
Dialogue.
Let's expose dialogue to the same dictionary research we did with discussion. The word comes from the Greek roots - dia, or through, and logos, or words or meaning.
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