Donald C Stone was only slightly joking when he wrote an article called The Administration of Chairs: Not the Persons or Subject, But the Arrangement of Chairs Determines the Success of a Meeting.
Sitting quietly in a back issue of the journal Public Administration Review, Stone’s seven-page composition both instructs and advises. His basic message: there are good and bad ways to arrange chairs in a meeting room, and any success-minded administrator had better learn the difference….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
