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	• Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business Patrick M. Lencioni Jossey-Bass, 2004 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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I just wish I could find a newly-minted MBA as smart and mature as Will!

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Death by Meeting

I believe this book is meant for the harried executive who is too busy to read anything more substantial. The fable slant to the book makes it approachable. And at 255 pages, you could read it in a couple of hours. Admittedly, a typical CEO listening to a temporary assistant from the start, and the premise that the future of the CEO's job will be based on one meeting is a bit over the top, but in any event, the book's main purpose is to shed light on corporate realities, not to provide the Holy Grail of effective meetings. Scores of employees hate meetings because they're ineffective. No big idea there. One of the reasons people suffer horrible meetings is because they don't realize they're having ineffective meetings, they simply put up with them. And if they do realize they're wasting their time, they think it'll take too much time to fix. Why is there no conflict in meetings? Everyone wants to make sure they're politically correct. That's where the passion is -- hidden behind the PC veneer. While this book is not a handbook or a how-to, the effectiveness of his words lies in the implementation which happens in real-time (at individual companies), not at the theory level presented within the book's pages.

To sum, this book is an enjoyable read, and it's commonsense when you look at it. However, if you're looking for the silver bullet, keep looking.

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