Guide to Meetings

This concise, practical book is written for you if you want to assure your meetings will be...

• Necessary and not just a waste of time
• Interesting, coherent, and well-organized
• A place for people to share, rather than show off, their ideas
• Constructive, thoughtful, and creative
• Inclusive, with full participation from all
• Efficient and not a waste of energy

• Advances in technology—such as videoconferencing and conference calls
• Increased reliance on collaborative workgroups and cross-functional work teams
• Increased specialization, which necessitates sharing diverse knowledge and expertise

• Brief: summarizes key ideas only
• Practical: offers clear, straightforward tools you can use
• Reader-friendly: provides easy-to-skim format

• —Listed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five business "books you shouldn't miss."
• —"Really a gem." Former managing editor, Harvard Business Review
• —"Short, compact, practical, and readable... I liked it immensely." Journal of Business Communication