Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (J-B Lencioni Series),   ISBN:9780787968052

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A good book- presents the problems organizations deal with by having ineffective meetings (both from a lack of constructive/intellectual conflict and from poor strucure) through a fictional story. The format makes it an easy read but a tad on the cheesy side- the content was good and I think the author makes some good points but the story line was pretty weak. I have seen elements of the meeting recommendations implemented successfully in the organizations I've worked for and believe it will help me in the future.

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Ever wonder why you can be intrigued with a 90-minute movie with little relevance to your daily life and be completely bored to death by a workplace meeting? Patrick Lencioni's book is an engaging leadership fable that defines what makes meetings engaging. Comparing a movie to a meeting, he insists the top two reasons meetings are not productive is the lack of drama and lack of contextual structure. While a tad less insightful than his previous books (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive), Lencioni continues to deliver a good, quick read with practical information that any leader can use. His discussion of the four different types of meetings is worth the price of the book alone. So what are you waiting for? Another dull meeting?

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Have short, to the point meetings, and have things decided at them.

This book drones on and on with a truly rephrensible made-up example. It is diadic generally very poorly written. The advice is trite and quite frankly intuative.

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Another "easy read" by Lencioni: not a jargon filled tome filled with executive psychobabble.
He lays out a interesting paradigm for approaching meetings.
My only complaint is that he's made sitting in meetings even more painful! Now the dysfunctionality is painfully clear.

Customer Rating: 

This has been an extremely useful book as I have been struggling with the "Most Painful Problem in Business" as Patrick Lencioni puts it. In our company we have many back-back meetings and most of the days it feels like all you do is go from meeting to meeting. I have also been guilty of conducting unproductive meetings. So when I came across this book and read the first pages it felt like the perfect book that can help me solve the problem that I was struggling with. After completing the book, I now have very clear guidelines as to how make meetings more productive. I am completely bought on the "mining conflict" concept. Also useful is deciding on what type of meeting it is going to be "Daily Check-In", "Weekly Tactical", "Monthly Strategic" or "Quarterly Off-site". For those of you struggling with the quantity and quality of meetings, this is an excellent book that gives you many insights and practical steps to make your meetings better.