Why the productive conversations in a meeting seemingly go nowhere:

• Participants are most likely immediately running to another meeting where their attention shifts to a new set of issues. 
• Participants leave the meeting without clarity about what was agreed upon.

There is a subconscious control going on almost all the time in our behaviour, on how others perceive us, something which is called social dramaturgy.

This behaviour would not be acceptable or palpable for others, if they didn’t participate in this in social environments, resultin...

• We start work based on a job description, a contract and set of mutual expectations. In return for doing this and that, we can expect to be compensated in this way and that way.
• As time progresses, we’ll probably be asked to do other tasks and projects and we might ask for workplac...