The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done - Hardcover

Song, Mike; Halsey, Vicki; Burress, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605090077 ISBN 13: 9781605090078

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

Are meetings taking over your life? You’re not alone. Meet Iris, a sales director so overwhelmed by meetings that she feels like a hamster on a wheel—in fact, she’s turned into one. Just in time, she meets a coach—a leading meeting efficiency expert—with a simple system that helps her regain her sanity and humanity.

The coach’s secret is a laser-like focus on the five biggest meeting pain points:

1. Meeting overload: Professionals waste twenty-four days a year in useless meetings.

2. Missing success ingredients: ninety percent of all professionals attend meetings that lack a clearly stated objective and agenda.

3. Virtual-meeting chaos: Disinterested participants + endless technical glitches huge amounts of wasted time.

4. Agenda adrift: Goals are missed when meetings veer off course.

5. Action distraction: Incomplete action items result in delayed projects and missed deadlines.

The coach demonstrates that these five challenges are damaging Iris’s career and costing the world over a trillion dollars each year. He provides practical new solutions that rapidly transform Iris from victim to victor. These solutions are tailored to the technology-driven world in which Iris lives—she discovers how to use e-calendars, PDAs, and virtual meetings to make her life easier, not more complicated. She applies the solutions, gets immediate results, and reclaims her life. The Hamster Revolution for Meetings focuses on a small number of high-impact best practices that really work. Included is a landmark case study that shows how 3,000 Capital One associates reclaimed ten days per year while improving meeting effectiveness by over 35 percent.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Praise for The Hamster Revolution for Meetings

"A gem! This book will take your career to new heights!"
-Ken Blanchard, The One Minute ManagerŪ

"The best meeting effectiveness tools ever!"
-Richard L. Andersen, EVP, San Diego Padres

"Chock full of practical, creative tips for leveraging today's e-calendar and web meeting technology."
-Jan Baldwin, Co-CEO, NTH Generation Computing

"Brilliant, timely, and deceptively simple!"
-Paul Ruane, Director of Learning and Development Schering Plough

From the Author:

Hi!  Mike Song - lead author of The Hamster Revolution here.
With over 125,000 copies in print - we are truly amazed and humbled at the global reception to our Hamster book series.  If your organization is suffering from email or meeting overload - these books will help save your people over 30 days a year! Please contact me with questions about our award-winning Get Control! of Email and Meetings training.  Our hamster insights are all based on real world research and training insights with companies like McDonalds, Mercedes Benz, Novartis, and Capital One.  Just google 'hamster revolution getcontrol' to find me. Mike Song  |  CEO  | GetControl.net | Lead Author - The Hamster Revolution 

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1605090077
• ISBN 13: 9781605090078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144