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-1. 1. \*\*\*\*
+\*\*\*\*
 
-This is an introduction to Integrity in Communication
 
-1. Applies equally to text and voice.
-   1. Including but not limited to all content that you write.
-2. Applicable not just with other employees but all stakeholders. 
 
 Highly recommended read: [The Pyramid Principle - Lessons from McKinsey](https://medium.com/lessons-from-mckinsey/the-pyramid-principle-f0885dd3c5c7)  
 
 
-Speak from a place of Empathy
 
-1. When you speak, you are demanding someone else’s mind space to be at your volition albeit momentarily; be respectful of that leverage, for else it shall wither away very fast in a team of doers.  As a consequence, the less you speak; the higher your words are valued. Embrace silence. Speak only when necessary.  
-2. Use cases that are appropriate:
-   1. You have something to add value to the listener’s life. 
-   2. You have an ask of someone that may add value to your life.
 
 
- Everything else is banter, and without prior consent; it is disrespectful.  
-
 
 
 
-How does empathy translate into words?
+Focus not on what you want to say, but what you want to communicate. 
 
-1. Focus not on what you want to say, but what you want to communicate. 
-   1. For the former is about you, the latter is about them
+1. 1. For the former is about you, the latter is about them
       1. Hence, use words that will help the listener to arrive at what it is that you want for them to hear. 
          1. Will take practice
 2. Structure your ask to be:

operating-at-tvp-1/silent-meetings.md

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 # Silent Meetings
 
+A typical meeting is someone speaking and everyone listening. Silent meetings are their inversion.
 
+They are:
 
-A company is a group of individuals aligned to a common goal. More often than not you’ll need to collaborate with other people.  
-
+1. Asynchronous 
+2. Written
+3. Focussed on getting things done
 
 
-Meetings are the shittest way to do it. Expensive, disruptive and painful.   
 
+### How-To
 
-1. 1. Expensive: For a team, even a one-hour, once in 2 days meeting of 5 people costs 30k just in time costs. If this cost was to be for a tool they had to buy, it will be a decision with considerable deliberation; yet such cost is spent on meeting at a whim.
-   2. Disruptive: Time cost is trivial in the face of the disruption it causes to people’s schedule and flow. The impact of that on productivity and hence, cost is a healthy multiple.
-   3. Painful: Who gets excited by the thought of a meeting?
+1. **Initiation**  
+   A meeting doc is created with:
 
-Here is how we collaborate without needing a manager driven culture.  
-
-
-Silent Meetings
-
-A typical meeting is someone speaking and everyone listening. A colossal waste of cumulative time, and drain of human motivation.  
-
-
-Silent meetings are inverted. Focussed on Listening \(reading\) instead of battling for face time.  
-
-
-How to do a Silent Meeting?
-
-1. Every meeting is a pull event in nature
-   1. Pulled by someone/team that wants a discussion on something
-      1. That person is the owner that leads the meeting.
-2. A meeting doc is created i.e. everything that the owner wants others to know for the meeting.
    1. Agenda
-   2. Current Status
-   3. Asks
-   4. Actions
-      1. To be filled later
-   5. Sample template \(most need not be this tightly structured\): [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-NLvzg5iYIoXjnRxfvh\_HnZYbENg1wSC0U2RmuZTyr4/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-NLvzg5iYIoXjnRxfvh_HnZYbENg1wSC0U2RmuZTyr4/edit)
-3. Once you have the meeting doc, you’ve convened the meeting. 
-   1. Then everyone reads and comments \(including questions\) on the doc.
-   2. Once you are done with the first pass of the document, go back to the beginning and do a second pass. You are encouraged to respond to other’s comments where needed.
-      1. Keep all comments unresolved. They may be useful for others.
-         1. Only the meeting owner may resolve them.
-   3. Once common threads of discussions emerge, discussion time can begin.
-      1. Meeting owner decides.
-4. For smaller groups or one to ones, the first 2 steps can be async and step 3 can be on-demand. For the rest, it occurs on a scheduled time and on location.
-   1. Abstracted from: [https://medium.com/swlh/the-silent-meeting-manifesto-v1-189e9e3487eb](https://medium.com/swlh/the-silent-meeting-manifesto-v1-189e9e3487eb)
-
-Why Silent meeting?
-
-Apart from the exponentially higher productivity:
-
-1. Old school meetings tend to incentive the loudest voice
-   1. Yet, in reality, only the most accurate voice is consequential.
-2. Silent meetings prioritize thinking over saying
-3. The goal is to get things done, not heroism.
+   2. Ask
+   3. All information needed for individuals to deliver on the ask. 
 
-When not to use a Silent Meeting?
+   Once the doc is shared, the meeting is convened.   
 
-1. When the agenda is to discuss emotion
-   1. For eg. an issue you are facing at work
-2. When the agenda is to share success/inspire
-   1. Prefer to announce it on slack or in between breaks.
+2. **Execution** Individuals respond to the doc, and review other's thoughts using comments. Repeat this process until all threads get closed or need escalation to facetime.  
+3. **Closure** Facetime to close all open threads. Conclusion is documented and the meeting closes.