These are
books and audio recordings I have found inspirational and helpful in the past
several years. There are Amazon.com links for those items available
through Amazon.com. Please let me know of your favorites and new
discoveries that are not listed.
Death by Meeting
by
Patrick Lencioni
Editorial Reviews
In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick
Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this
one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of
modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and
revolutionary.
Casey McDaniel, the founder and CEO of Yip Software, is in the midst of a
problem he created, but one he doesn’t know how to solve. And he doesn’t know
where or who to turn to for advice. His staff can’t help him; they’re as
dumbfounded as he is by their tortuous meetings.
Then an unlikely advisor, Will Peterson, enters Casey’s world. When he proposes
an unconventional, even radical, approach to solving the meeting problem, Casey
is just desperate enough to listen.
As in his other books, Lencioni provides a framework for his groundbreaking
model, and makes it applicable to the real world. Death by Meeting is nothing
short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration
among their teams, and create environments of engagement and passion.
Janet
McCallen
This is a good book. It's a good (not totally believable, but engaging)
story. And the points Lencioni makes about meetings can help save many of
us from "dying" of boredom in meetings - and wasting valuable time. If you regularly spend time in
meetings, you should read this book. If you're frequently the leader of
meetings, this is a must read. I just hope you won't find it as
excruciating as I did... mainly because I recognized many of the (boring)
meetings I've lead in Lencioni's descriptions! He offers a prescription to
create context for meetings that will make them more interesting, and - more
importantly - more productive.
