Breaking Robert's Rules The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results

Every day in communities across America hundreds of diverse groups hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. The procedures that most groups rely on to reach decisions were first laid out as Robert's Rules more than 150 years ago. These arcane rituals, based mainly on majority rule, usually produce a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns, again, at the next possible meeting.

Lawrence E. Susskind is the Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT and head of the Public Disputes Program at Harvard Law School. An experience mediator, he is Founder of the Consensus Building Institute and author of Dealing with an Angry Public: The Mutual Gains Approach to Resolving Disputes (with Patrick T. Field) and The Consensus Building Handbook (with Sarah McKearnan and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer).
Jeffrey L. Cruikshank is an experienced editor, the author of numerous of interest to managers, and published novelist. His first book collaboration with co-author Susskind was Breaking the Impasse, published in 1987.