How the pope is elected
The cardinals meet within ten days (no long delays) after the previous pope‘s death, only cardinals under the age of 80 may be elected (a priori elimination of debatable parameters) and… they meet in a conclave (cum clave means „locked in“, so no one leaves the room until the decision is made).
How they brought about decisions in the Bregenzerwald
Where I come from (Vorarlberg, a state of Austria that is) there is a location famous for a similar system: Bezegg, the geographic center of the Bregenzerwald.
The townhall was built on story-high columns, had windows to all sides but only a trap door in the bottom, where you had to use a ladder got get in and out of the building. This ladder was removed as soon as the gatherings started and was only put back when the goal of the session was achieved.
I don‘t think we can apply such processes in our daily working routine, but let‘s fantasise just a minute we could… ;-)
Abgegeben von Karsten Sauer am 15. Sep 2009 um 7:49 am Uhr
Das – kombiniert mit ausschließlich Stehplätzen – und es wird nie wieder Endlosmeetings geben. Gute Idee!
Abgegeben von Constance Stickler am 15. Sep 2009 um 7:58 am Uhr
“stances only” – I wrote an article about this topic: “Weg mit den Stühlen oder Wie man Meetings kurz hält” (http://www.getzcope.com/blog/2009/02/26/weg-mit-den-stuhlen-oder-wie-man-meetings-kurz-halt/)
As I told there – we have a meeting room with stances only here in the ZCOPE office – it really helps ;-)