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Let’s Stop Meeting Like This
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Let’s Stop Meeting Like This

Tools to Save Time and Get More Done

Dick Axelrod and Emily Axelrod
Berrett-Koehler, 2014

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People usually dislike meetings. Often, meetings only waste time and build frustration. Yet organizations need their people to confer or need to hold meetings to unite a team or fulfill a specific goal. Employee-involvement specialists Dick and Emily Axelrod offer worthwhile strategies and methods to make your meetings more effective. Most of their ideas are pretty sensible; for example, involving all the participants in the advance design of a meeting. A few seem silly, if well-intentioned, like having competing groups build towers with raw spaghetti, marshmallows and duct tape. Overall, the Axelrods provide pithy quotations and useful, hands-on information – warmly infused with a sense that they actually care how your meetings work out. They cover planning, designing, facilitating and leading group sessions. The book’s art direction helps with a clean layout and lively, silhouette illustrations. getAbstract recommends the Axelrod approach to managers, executives, start-ups and anyone responsible for organizing meetings.

Take-Aways

  • Many meetings are a waste of time.
  • However, a well-planned, well-executed meeting can be effective and useful.
  • If employees need to share information in person and that requires dialogue, then you need to schedule a meeting.

About the Authors

Dick Axelrod and Emily Axelrod are co-founders of the Axelrod Group, a consulting firm specializing in employee involvement.

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    J. R. 1 month ago
    nice
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    A. 1 decade ago
    They just forgot the most important rule: «People who like attending meetings should be banned from meetings.» (Nassim Taleb)