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Robert's Rules of Order for People Who Don't Have Time for Robert's Rules
The 20% of Parliamentary Procedure That Handles 95% of Real Meetings
You're about to chair a meeting. Someone will make a motion. Someone else will want to change it. A third person will want to end debate. A fourth will claim you're doing it wrong. You need to know exactly what to say, in what order, without pausing to flip through a 700-page manual. This guide gives you that—the complete chair's operating system for the 20% of Robert's Rules that handles 95% of real meetings.
Inside this guide
- What Robert's Rules Actually Does (And Why 90% of It Doesn't Apply to You)
- The 10 Procedures You'll Actually Use
- The Motion Lifecycle: From 'I Move' to 'Motion Carries'
- Amendments: Changing Motions Without Starting Over
- Voting: Methods, Thresholds, and Announcing Results
- The Chair's Job: Neutrality, Control, and Judgment Calls
- Quorum, Recesses, and Emergency Procedures
- Common Mistakes: The Ones That Matter vs. The Ones That Don't