Rituals

OK, I have to out myself in order to write this post on rituals related to a meeting's success. About what do I need to come out, you ask? In college, I was in a Greek sorority. Chi Omega. And I wasn't just in the sorority, I was the president during part of my junior and senior years. But here's the deal: I learned a lot about how to run a meeting during those days. Yes, we really did have a secret handshake (I think it might have been called a grip) and a secret password. But by entering the chapter meeting after doing the grip and whispering the password, you were kind of transformed into this special meeting mode. There were other rituals related to the beginning and end of the meetings and other secret stuff that I honestly do not remember. But in fact, we had real responsiblities that required real actions and I believe the rituals, based in decades-long tradition, helped us have good meetings.