Robert’s Rules of Order

• Hardcover: 212 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (March 8, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470596996
• ISBN-13: 978-0470596999
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.4 x 8.3 inches

Book Description
     "Robert rule" is the United States of America's most widely recognized rules of procedure. This set of rules of procedure, how to put matters, how to listen to and comments, how to move and how to vote, have very detailed provisions.
     The "Robert rule" contains rich ideas, including: the rule of law, democracy, protection of rights, balance of power, procedural justice, procedural competition, freedom and control, efficiency and fairness. But Roche rules and without pretense to his role in a set of "tools". Throughout the book are devoted to the idea, but the idea in rule, directly facing the practice, for details, the operability, plain and rigorous declarative rules, but the rules but without revealing the concept of glory.
     This book is the latest official version of it, is the crystallization of 125 years development and innovation of the rule, summarizes the new development of the rules of procedure of the system, is a classic, comprehensive, authoritative rule book.


About the author
     General Henry Robert, born in May 2, 1837, the huguenots. He was a bit thin, but loves the collective, is a resolute of the United States Army Corps of engineers. The "Robert rule" is named after him. This set of rules has millions of meeting brings about order and efficiency. In the wake of non-governmental organizations and churches are engaged in years of meetings, he began to study the rules of procedure, which was published in February 19, 1876 first edition "Robert rules". In 1901 he retired from the army after the start in engineering consulting work, and the last 10 years life dedicated to the cause of the compilation of rules of procedure. He died in May 11, 1923.


Blogger Review
     "Robert rules" -- the Bible says meeting meeting, are not unfamiliar, every Chinese people from small to large, do not know how to participate in the meeting. But the real value of the conference, estimate the scanty, most are crustily skin of head to the podium that speak in excitement emotion or hum about, and then standing by a show of hands.
    That "meetings" has become the government's efforts to change a bad policy division. "Robert rules" is the author of the United States Army General Henry Robert (1837-1923), first published in February 19, 1876.
    After Robert's death, his descendants and had participated in the preparation of people continue to revise the rules of procedure, technological advances make it suitable for changing. A fifth edition in 1970 1943, the seventh edition.
    The new Ninth Edition, published in 1990. This book is written is legendary, during the American Civil War, the North's Betty Ford, a young lieutenant Henry Martin Robert was ordered to convene a political meeting, due to big differences, after a long fight, the meeting ended, not only failed to reach a goal, but also get the participants confront each other with daggers, atmosphere is worse than a meeting before.
    This makes the 25 meeting of lieutenant Robert deeply stimulation, vowed to write a good meeting how to book. He did, which is that a thin this but covers basic human meeting to discuss the essence of the classic. Usually think, "Robert rules" has four principles. That is (1) balance principle, namely the protection of the rights and protection of views of most views occupy minority rights, did not even attend the meeting people's rights are protected, and ultimately to protect all the composition of these people the rights of the whole; (2) to restrict the collective leader, in part to hand over their rights leader at the same time, we must remain a part of rights, ensure that they can directly control the collective itself in all affairs without being controlled by the leaders; (3) the principle of majority; (4) the principle of debate, everyone has the right to persuade others to accept the debate will of his own, until this will become the general will.
    The "Robert rule" far-reaching, various occasions meeting, as the meeting of the presidium or sponsor, will advance in accordance with the "Robert rule" on the spirit of the conference planning. So as to ensure that the conference can effectively, orderly, fair held. Modern enterprise, changing the form of the meeting, is no longer must sit square in the conference room, according to different level one at a time. The famous manager Yu Shiwei said in his speech, their business conference held frequently in the beach, all wearing Beachwear, relaxed meeting, the effect is very good.
   GOOGLE companies are usually in the restaurant workers held a small meeting. The above examples, all sorts of strange things modern conference form, but the spirit of the principle of the meeting, the rules of the game that still a few.
This is the crystallization of human wisdom sum up down. With Robert own words: left rules, everyone is free to act, the result is that everyone is not true freedom.
-- Henry Robert
In a masters of the people in the country, there is little knowledge such as rules, just a little learning can significantly improve the efficiency of such.
-- Henry Robert