Read This Before Our Next Meeting: How We Can Get More Done - Softcover

Pittampalli, Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241209056 ISBN 13: 9780241209059

Publisher: Penguin, 2015

Synopsis

Read This Before Our Next Meeting is Al Pittampalli's accessible guide on making meetings more effective, efficient, and worthy of attending

The average office worker spends eleven hours in meetings every week. Yet all that time sitting around a conference table hasn't made us more productive. If anything, meetings have made work worse.

Traditional meetings reduce efficiency, kill urgency, and breed compromise and complacency. But there is a solution, a way to have fewer, shorter, more purposeful meetings: Al Pittampalli's Modern Meeting Standard. By following its eight simple but radical principles you may never have to attend a useless meeting again.

'I dutifully avoid meetings whenever possible, which is pretty much always. If I were to go to meetings, though, I'd want Al to run them.'
Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup and The Art of Non-Conformity

About this title

About the Author

AL PITTAMPALLI is the founder of the Modern Meeting Company, which has helped organizations like NASA, IBM, Abbott Labs, and Kaiser Permanente hold more effective meetings. He is a former IT adviser at Ernst & Young LLP and lives in New York City. You can learn more about him at: modernmeetingstandard.com.

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Copyright

PREFACE

WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?

THE EIGHT PRINCIPLES OF MODERN MEETINGS

YOU MUST DECIDE

THE MODERN MEETING STANDARD

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MODERN MEETING

MORE QUESTIONS?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

When I first began writing Read This Before Our Next Meeting, I remember telling myself that if it earned 5,000 readers, it would be a huge success. To my jubilation, four years later, the book is out in over 100,000 copies all over the world (it’s been translated into five foreign languages). I’ve also had the privilege of helping some of the world’s brightest organizations—NASA, IBM, Abbott Labs, Hewlett Packard, American Electric Power, Hertz and more—implement the book’s principles.

One of the best things about having your ideas in the hands of so many is the feedback it produces. Countless executives, managers, and HR personnel have reached out to me to share inspiring success stories. And I do appreciate every one of them, but what’s far more valuable to me is the sincere criticism from thoughtful readers on how some of the ideas in the book fell short for them. I take these criticisms very seriously, and as a result, I’ve learned a great deal from them. That’s why I’m so thrilled to finally get the opportunity to update the book based on those insights.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241209056
• ISBN 13: 9780241209059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80