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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
If there are ten people in your group you increase who you have to report to from one person to nine people. You'll have nine bosses. One day you'll find out you are doing 80% of the work will all the other are doing 20% and you'll resent it. Going in you thought everyone is equal and everything is done equally. And one day when you go into work, and look around at your flat organization, you'll realize that is not the case. Pareto principle will bitch slap you in the face and you'll hate your life and hate your job and resent all the rest because the amount of effort you put into it.
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You won't be having nine bosses, you'll be participating in a democracy. And you most likely won't be doing 80% of the work, because tasks will be assigned at regular, democratic meetings.
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Originally Posted by bob_32_116
If you want a true productive round table discussion, as suggested in the illustration above, I'd suggest the first thing to do is ban laptops and mobile phones from the room, and force people to actually talk and to look at each other as they talk. Maybe let them have a pen and paper if anyone wants/needs to take notes on what was discussed.
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The illustration is just, well, an illustration. On a real meeting, there should be a set of democratically-decided rules that everyone will have to follow - for instance, no phones, no interruptions, etc. - and an elected leader for the meeting, who will make sure that everyone speaks in turn and keeps track of the order.