Among the many reasons for meetings there is the one you may not realise you are attending until some way through the meeting you thought you were attending! Talking here of course about the so called ‘hidden agenda’ in a meeting i.e. a secondary purpose to the original meeting subject which may have emerged as […]
Two person (business) meetings, duets we will call them, tend to fall into one of four areas: education, security, political or disciplinary. Recognising which is sometimes explicit but not always and can sometimes combine two or more of the four. Looking at each: (1) Education: This is a broad category and covers duets for a […]
A ‘meeting of the minds’ is a cliché often employed to suggest a pair of parties seem to be in a close agreement about something. Informally it is a useful abbreviation of a generally solid consensus. However, there are occasions where this term can be very much more specific and focused, particularity in cases with […]
