Read This Before Our Next Meeting, Al Pittampalli
Read This Before Our Next Meeting, Al Pittampalli
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Read This Before Our Next Meeting
How We Can Get More Done

Author: Al Pittampalli

Narrator: Al Pittampalli

Unabridged: 1 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/03/2011

Synopsis

Traditional meetings are a weapon of mass interruption. Long live the Modern Meeting!The average American 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. Worst of all, our dysfunctional meeting culture changes how we focus, what we focus on, and what decisions we make.But there is a solution, a way to have fewer, shorter, more purposeful meetings. It’s called the Modern Meeting Standard. By following its eight simple but radical principles you may never have to attend a useless meeting again.Read This Before Our Next Meeting is the call to action you (and your boss) need.

About Al Pittampalli

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi

Endless meetings have you down? Pittampalli has a solution to your woes. He claims that modern meetings should only be held to solve specific problems and the only people who should be required to attend are those who could take direct action to solve that problem. I think that the idea is a solid o......more

Goodreads review by Debbe

I was really excited to read this book because I too am a victim of constant meetings, many that are a complete waste of time. I was very disappointed with the content and the repetitiveness of this book. I ended up skimming the last third of the book because it was just restating earlier sections.......more

Goodreads review by Bill

A short & sweet manifesto to try and fix the broken bureaucratic meeting system. My favorite quote from the FAQ at the end: "Q: What if I end up making a decision not everyone agrees with? A: Congratulations are in order. You're a leader."......more

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