Power Distance in the Meeting Room
Create a meeting structure that surfaces dissent across status differences.
Open discussion is not open if status makes speaking costly. The concept Hofstede's power distance is a group-level clue about how authority may be interpreted. Meyer helps translate that clue into meeting behavior: who speaks first, whether disagreement is public, and how decisions are ratified. CQ reminds you to check the actual people, because culture, role, age, client presence, and company norms all interact. The mechanism Public dissent has a cost. The cost rises when the dissenter is junior, remote, new, vendor-side, or from a setting where hierarchy is treated as order. A leader lowers that cost by changing the…
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