Read This Before Our Next Meeting (Paperback)

Al Pittampalli

ISBN 10: 0241209056 / ISBN 13: 9780241209059

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2015

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Paperback. An accessible guide on making meetings more effective, efficient, and worthy of attendingIn the last few years, meetings have earned a bad reputation. They're considered a waste of time by many, yet they remain a staple of all work environments. Instead of dreading the meeting, companies should work to bring structure and purpose back into the meeting.Al Pittampalli proposes "The Modern Meeting" and its seven critical principles of effective meeting management. Pittampalli shares examples of transforming workplaces by revamping the purpose of the meeting and a company's meeting culture. Simply put, he wants companies to stop wasting time.Read This Before Our Next Meeting is a call to action employees and their bosses need to create companies that do meaningful work. Traditional meetings reduce efficiency, kill urgency, and breed compromise and complacency. This book features eight principles which offers a way to have fewer, shorter, more purposeful meetings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Read This Before Our Next Meeting (Paperback)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241209056
• ISBN 13: 9780241209059
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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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 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.