Ian,
I am most grateful for your summary of your experience with 'roll call'.
I have had several replies to my initial query. One attributed the method
to Edward DeBono, another to the distinguished communications consultant
Roger D'Aprix, still anther has very nicely tracked the method back to a
recent usage by a Booz Allen consultant. It is becoming a bit of a
detective story.
Just a word about my interest. I was with a group of Senior VPs and their
COO. They talked abut their operating meetings as regular 'beatings' for
what had not happened. One of those Senior VPs recounted the method as he
had heard it from a seminar. I was taken by the bridge that the method
offered for these individuals from the experience they wanted to get rid
of to the sort of reflection that we were espousing. They all wanted to
get to a place where there was the possibility to do some learning instead
of worrying about how to CYA. Their interest in the method fanned my own.
Of course, there may be a dark side to this method as well and it is a
method not necessarily a change of mental models. Regardless, I do want to
learn more about it and am grateful to you and others for helping me in my
search.
All the best,
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