Pro tip: I started making people vote on our book club picks and it fixed everything

Our club in Austin used to waste 30 minutes every meeting just arguing about what to read next. It was all talk, no decision. Last spring, I bought a cheap whiteboard and made a rule: anyone who suggests a book has to give a one-minute pitch, then we vote right away. The first time we did it, we picked our next book in under five minutes. We've read eight books since starting this, and no one has complained about the choice yet. Has your group tried a system like this, or did you find another way to stop the endless debate?

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julia_hayes2d ago

That "one-minute pitch" rule is a game changer. My group in Portland used to have the same problem until we started doing ranked choice voting on slips of paper. It cut out all the side conversations and made the process feel fair.

hugo_coleman281d ago

Yeah @julia_hayes, it's like how simple rules fix so many group problems.