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    Robert's Rules of Order: A Complete Guide to Robert's Rules of Order
    Robert's Rules of Order: A Complete Guide to Robert's Rules of Order
    Robert's Rules of Order: A Complete Guide to Robert's Rules of Order
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    Robert's Rules of Order: A Complete Guide to Robert's Rules of Order

    By Robert Briggs

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    ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER

    Robert’s Rules were first established in 1863 as a way to better assist in bringing efficiency, legitimacy, fairness, uniformity and competence to the way meetings ran among Army personnel. Since that time, Robert’s Rules have been updated and expanded upon, and are now

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIngram Publishing
    Release dateMar 27, 2020
    ISBN9781761033421
    Robert's Rules of Order: A Complete Guide to Robert's Rules of Order
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    Robert Briggs

    Robert Briggs attended Auburn and Columbia Universities and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He became a partner in The San Francisco Book Company in 1972 and in 1973 founded Robert Briggs Associates, a group of West Coast consultants to writers and small publishers. The Association was involved in a variety of nonfiction publications including Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd, Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, Kenneth R. Pelletier’s classic book on stress, as well as works by Joseph Campbell, Stanislav Grof, Colin Wilson, and Theodore Roszak. Briggs is also the author of The American Emergency: A Search for Spiritual Renewal in an Age of Materialism, 1986, and Ruined Time: the 1950s and the Beat, 2006. Ruined Time is a cultural autobiography of the Great Depression, World War II and the 1950s. This book sparked various multimedia projects including Jazz and Poetry & Other Reasons, reads written and read by Robert Briggs and accompanied by jazz musicians in performances in Portland, OR. CDs were produced that include Poetry in the 1950s (1999), Someone Said No (2003), My Own Atom Bomb (2005), The Beat Goes On (2008), Love in America (2009), and The Beat Revealed (2011). Robert Briggs was involved in early West Coast jazz and poetry scenes where he performed in San Francisco’s Jazz Cellar. To Briggs, “Jazz is to music, what poetry is to knowing.”

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      Robert's Rules of Order - Robert Briggs

      Introduction

      Thank you for taking the time to pick up this book about Robert’s Rules of Order.

      Robert’s Rules were first established in 1863 as a way to better assist in bringing efficiency, legitimacy, fairness, uniformity and competence to the way meetings ran among Army personnel. Since that time, Robert’s Rules have been updated and expanded upon, and are now used in organizations of all types and sizes.

      This book covers the topic of Robert’s Rules and how to understand and implement them yourself. In the following chapters you will learn of the different Rules of Order you must follow, as well as the definitions of many terms used within Robert’s Rules.

      Finally, you will be provided with strategies as to how you may introduce Robert’s Rules to your specific organization, be it a company, charity, sporting club, sorority, or otherwise!

      Once again, thanks for choosing this book, I hope you find it to be helpful!

      Chapter 1: History and Use of Robert’s Rules

      We have all experienced one of those dreaded business meetings that seem to drag on with one person doing all the talking. Perhaps, if we have not had that experience, instead it was one of those club get-togethers when the very outspoken person pushed to build a pool outside the clubhouse that your club really did not have the funds to build. Maybe, in fact, you were simply hanging out with friends and you noticed that one of the more soft-spoken of your group, maybe even you, did not get a chance to suggest where to eat for his or her own birthday.

      Robert’s Rules of Order grew out of a need for efficiency, a desire for legitimacy, a hope for fairness, and a simple striving for uniformity and competence in running meetings across the United States. It started with Henry Martyn Robert, an Army officer of civil engineering in 1863, when Robert was 26 years old. Leaders of a public community meeting held in a church setting asked Robert to preside over the gathering. Robert had never attempted anything like it before, and it seems that, in Robert’s mind at least, the results were disastrous.

      Robert searched out and studied the few books he could find concerning parliamentary law, the rules and guidelines for running parliamentary bodies and decision-making teams. Later the Army transferred him to San Francisco, and Robert discovered a complete non-uniformity in how the Army meetings were run across the United States, not to mention how meetings outside the Army functioned.

      Determined to assist in bringing efficiency, legitimacy, fairness, uniformity and competence to the way meetings ran among Army personnel and throughout the nation, Robert compiled a book of common parliamentary law known as Robert’s Rules of Order, though the official title was Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies. Eventually, Robert was promoted to General in the Army and his Rules of Order became the official text for a great majority of assemblies and meetings.

      Throughout the years, there have been two revisions and ten additional editions, with General Robert’s heirs very much involved in the updating and revisions. The latest edition is called Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised and is the Eleventh Edition of the work. Generally, people consider Robert’s Rules to be the parliamentary authority and look to his Rules of Order in matters of deliberative process.

      Who Uses Robert’s Rules?

      Any group that must come to a decision can use Robert’s Rules, though generally they are used by deliberative or parliamentary assemblies, that is, but formal groups of people who come together on a regular basis concerning a specific cause or topic. Often one of

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