Breaking Robert's Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get ResultsEvery day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not, the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first laid out as Robert's Rules more than 150 years ago by an officer in the U. S. Army's Corps of Engineers. Its arcane rituals of parliamentary