Read This Before Our Next Meeting: How We Can Get More Done

Written by Al Pittampalli

Narrated by Al Pittampalli

Traditional meetings are a weapon of mass interruption. Long live the Modern Meeting!

The average American office worker spends eleven hours in meetings every week. Yet all that time sitting around a conference table hasn’t made us more productive. If anything, meetings have made work worse.

Traditional meetings reduce efficiency, kill urgency, and breed compromise and complacency. Worst of all, our dysfunctional meeting culture changes how we focus, what we focus on, and what decisions we make.

But there is a solution, a way to have fewer, shorter, more purposeful meetings. It’s called the Modern Meeting Standard. By following its eight simple but radical principles you may never have to attend a useless meeting again.

Read This Before Our Next Meeting is the call to action you (and your boss) need.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Aug 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781455821181

Al Pittampalli

Al Pittampalli is the author of Read This Before Our Next Meeting, a manifesto for transforming the way organizations hold meetings. As a business consultant, Al has helped organizations like NASA, Boeing, Hertz, and Nokia adapt to a fast-changing world. He is a former IT advisor at Ernst & Young LLP and lives in New York City.

Reviews for Read This Before Our Next Meeting

[nogdog_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A quick little read (just 80 pages) with interesting ideas I'd like to see in action (to see if they really work).

[lyrictas · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Very specific proposal on how to stop holding most meetings and how to structure the ones we do have. A specific proposal for how to change our culture of scheduling our work around meetings, instead of holding meetings only when they advance our work. Worth the read. (And it's a quick read.)