An up-to-date handbook outlines official parliamentary procedures for business meetings, consultations, task forces, seminars, sales conferences, and more, and provides new information on electronic communications.
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Unreliable as a resource.,
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This review is from: 21st Century Robert's Rules of Order (21st Century Reference) (Mass Market Paperback)
Readers should be aware that this is not the official Robert's Rules of Order. Also, its accuracy leaves something to be desired. For example, a direct quote from page 84: "Definition: A majority means more than half the votes cast. As a result, majority means that more than half the people entitled to vote must approve the motion for it to pass." Not only does this statement contradict itself, it is contradicted elsewhere in the book.
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Does not conform to Robert's Rules,
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This review is from: 21st Century Robert's Rules of Order (21st Century Reference) (Mass Market Paperback)
Beware: This book, besides having typographical errors and no index, does not conform at all (!) to the current edition of Robert's Rules (namely "Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised" tenth edtion, the edition recognized by parliamentarians). The editor or author has added too much mis-information and has mis-defined too many terms for this book to be considered a "condensation" or "summary" of the motions, procedures and terminology of Robert's Rules of Order, of any edition. If your bylaws say that its official parliamentary authority is (some edition of) Robert's Rules of Order, then be aware that "21st Century..." is way too different from Robert's Rules to be useful as a gentle introduction. Instead, the book will lead you to practices that contradict the procedures in Robert's Rules of Order. I would not have minded a book that condenses the older (public domain) editions, and thus LEAVES OUT detail too rarely used, but to ADD new rules and new procedures that contradict Robert's Rules of Order is deceptive, and serves to fool the innocent reader who thinks he is reading a simple introductory text to the real thing. So, beware that the procedures in "21st Century" are the author's or editor's opinions, and not parliamentary law as described in any edition of Robert's Rules. In closing, in my opinion, there are too many bad definitions and too many new (i.e., unsupported) procedures to use the name "Robert's Rules" in its title. If you are looking for an easy-reading paperback that truly conforms to Robert's Rules, without including other non-Robert (contradictory) procedures, "This ain't it, folks!"
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Best of three I read for small volunteer Boards of Directors,
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This review is from: 21st Century Robert's Rules of Order (21st Century Reference) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is more conprehensive than 'Roberts Rules in Plain English' and easier to read than the classic. It is the only one I found that addressed procedures for small Board meetings with less than 12 people. It did have some typos in it, which I hope will be corrected in the next edition.
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quasi committee, incidental motions, subsidiary motions, privileged motions, main motion, parliamentary law, effective chairs, bylaw provision, pending motion, next regular meeting, chair calls, pending question Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Everywhere we turn today, growing complexity is increasing the pressure on our time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quasi committee, incidental motions, subsidiary motions, privileged motions, main motion, parliamentary law, effective chairs, bylaw provision, pending motion, next regular meeting, chair calls, pending question Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame Chair, Madame President, New York State, Bradley Group, Hastings of United Industries, San Diego, Say Second New!
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This book cites 4
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- Rules of Order by Roberts on 6 pages
- Parliamentary Law by Henry M. Robert on 4 pages
- A Manual of Style: A Guide to the Basics of Good Writing by U.S. Government Print Office in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Manual of Parliamentary Practice by L. S. Cushing on page 5
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