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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable... About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (精装)
by Patrick Lencioni
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Management, Productivity, Professional effectiveness |
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Valuable lessons and advice to help mid and upper managers to turn dull meetings from a tortune into a powerful productivity tool. |
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Ken Wilcox (CEO, Silicon Valley Bank) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
Death by Meeting is about much more than meetings; it's about an entire management philosophy. I read a lot of books on management, and Lencioni's are among the very best. They form the basis for our approach at Silicon Valley Bank. |
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Jim Mellado (President, Willow Creek Association) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
Lencioni has done it again! Insightful. Practical. Ready-to-implement solutions. If you lead people, you can’t afford to miss this book. It’s an absolute must-read. |
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Curt Nonomaque (President and CEO, VHA Inc.) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
We've put Pat's theories into practice and they work. Our meetings are more productive, our communication is clearer, and the team’s commitment to decisions is much greater. |
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Sandy Alderson (Executive VP of Operations, Major League Baseball) , USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
Meetings are such a critical element of effective organizational communication. Lencioni has provided a concise, entertaining, and inventive guide to improving meeting structure, participation, and results. Thumbs up for this insightful tale. |
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T. Lockie (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
Death by Meeting has been an excellent resource for our team. It provided us a common format for discussion and planning that was quick to read and easy to implement. The difference between this book on meetings and most leadership books on anything is that other team members actually READ the book.
The text is very accessible and interesting, the writing is better than you'd expect in a business manual, but less than you'd hope for in a novel. Each chapter ends with a hook that gets slightly predictable.
All in all, if you're looking for a book that clarifies what's wrong with meetings and you're looking for a book that will put your team on the same page, then this is the book.
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Karen Lopez (MSL quote), Canada
<2006-12-28 00:00>
I've been trying to read more about effective work habits, including tips on running model reviews and meetings in general. So how could I pass up a title like Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable... About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business?
This work, by author Patrick Lencioni, is indeed told as a fable. This story-telling approach worked for me, but I know some people would rather just get to the chase and spell out the meeting tips inside. Unlike Weinberg;s Secrets of Consulting, this book is not a series of parables, but a sort of case study for a fictional software company named Yip Software. Yip is doing well, but company executives have a lack of passion, a lack of fever to strategically lead the company into a much needed growth phase. Our protagonist, an intern, is frustrated by the lack of progress in the company's weekly two hour staff meeting, so he starts researching the film industry to find out what he can contribute. Throw in a bit of fierce company acquisition politics and a couple of contrarian meeting attendees and you have a story that most of us will recognize - meetings can be painful, long, and demoralizing.
The meeting model proposed will go against conventional wisdom:
- Conflict can be good in a meeting
- Meeting leaders need to encourage conflict...and drama in meetings
- Not all meetings should have a set time to end
There are more. Again, the story helped add suspense and drama to this work, but some readers may not be as happy to spend time on back story. However, I felt that the recommendations in the meeting model to be very valuable: they are the usual meeting tips.
Recommended to everyone who has experienced "death by meeting”. |
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R. Lee (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
This "business novel" tells the story of a hot company that begins to lose its edge due to complacency and lack of focus among its leadership - characteristics that are evident in the weekly senior staff meetings. Using movie making as an analogy, Lencioni charts an entertaining, easy to grock way to revamp regular meetings so that participants are engaged, enabling them to make critical decisions and energize their teams. For anyone who's been caught up in circular discussions during meetings and spends endless time on emails - whether about strategy, budget, product development, sales or the work culture - this book seeds the possibility that groups of people who work together can learn to keep in touch and make decisions efficiently if they follow simple meeting guidelines. |
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Jamie (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
While the creativity and storytelling in most business novels is generally an insult to the word `novel,' Patrick Lencioni's work in Death by Meeting provides a very pleasant surprise. It is easy to read and you sense the emotions and issues that real people deal with every day. The heart of this book focuses on turning the dragging, lifeless and even painful experience of "the business meeting" into a dynamic essential element of the nervous system of any company.
The first premise of Death by Meeting is the conflict is not to be avoided in meetings but encouraged. Different than personal conflict, idea and position conflict is what is needed to make tough decisions and take the company forward. The second major premise is that we can not have multipurpose meetings. We should have some meetings for information and others for decision making, each with a different style and cadence. Lencioni specifically suggests four types of meetings. The 5-minute Daily Check-in, the 45-90 minute Weekly Tactical, the 2-4 hour Monthly or Ad Hoc Strategy and the 1-2 day Quarterly Off-site Review.
Few if any proposed meeting structures come closer to what you would expect to see in a truly lean company. A lean company has (a) tremendous focus on the task at hand, (b) a disdain for waste such as that demonstrated when meetings lack purpose and structure and (c) a respect for the benefit of structure and standardization, such as proposed by the rhythm these meetings have. I highly suggest taking a look at this book, and then a more serious look at your own meeting structure. |
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S. Gray (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
The true test of a business development book is whether or not the information in it can be used in the real world. After reading this book, I immediately applied its principles almost to the letter, transforming my dreaded weekly 2-3 hour marathon leadership staff meeting into a series of shorter meetings, each with more concise expectations. The result is that my meetings are no longer "dreaded" and they are considerably more effective. I also like the book's format. The hardcover insures that the book will last and be a reference to me for a long time, and the extra white space in the margins allows room for my notes. If you meet - either as a leader or a participant - I recommend this book highly. |
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Todd Hudnall (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
In Death by Meeting, Patrick Lencioni uses a novel to introduce a model that turns the meeting albatross into the catalyst for organizational success. The book is a quality follow-up to Lencioni's exceptional business novel The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. It focuses on conducting meetings with unfiltered conflict and a passionate debate of ideas. He contends that the same elements of conflict that engage us in a movie are the keys to an interesting and productive meeting.
Death by Meeting is easy to read, entertaining, practical, and helpful. I found the characters interesting and the story enjoyable. If you lead an organization where meetings are seen as a necessary evil, you should invest in Death by Meeting. |
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