Reviews for Robert's Rules for Dummies (Dummies Series)

The average rating for Robert's Rules for Dummies (Dummies Series) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-06-15 00:00:00 Marc Perez Tejero Some may think me crazy, but I LOVED this book! I read it to help me better grasp Robert's Rules so that I could more usefully participate in our presbytery meetings. I was fascinated by how Robert's Rules is really set up to serve a deliberative body. I have always thought of Robert's Rules as being unnecessarily constricting. I certainly think that there are times when RR are more hurt than help; but I can see more now how useful they can be when a large body of people need to make business decisions. For example, I appreciated learning about the motion to "Postpone Indefinitely," which is basically intended to kill a motion (when it is clear that even taking a vote on something would cause more harm than good). Also, when someone has a particular ax to grind and they keep bringing the same things up over and over again, one can simply "Object to Consideration of the Question" which will immediately diffuse the troublemaker. It was definitely good to have a copy of Robert's Rules in hand to go to for more detail. But reading this book gave me a comprehensive enough picture (and handy reference charts for things) that I don't feel the need to read all of the RR handbook.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-05-03 00:00:00 George Lin Having struggled through Robert's Rules itself and working with several organizations that base their principals and meetings on RRORD, this book breaks everything down into easy to understand concepts. Even better, it uses examples for almost everything. I personally love the "Dummies" series. I've used them for everything from Yoga, statistics (ugh!), computer programming, to everything in between--and now this.