Through attending different courses and meetings with work I have found that domineering people often seek to laugh at or discourage sticking to an agenda. This allows them to act without the group's consent but without having clearly violated any rule, or even to claim that they alone know the rules and have in fact followed them. Worse, they may force someone else to act according to their wishes, again claiming that the procedural code, which no one has ever seen, requires it.
More often, however, a lack of process or agenda allows self-appointed leaders to control the collective by at…
