The revolution of attending meetings

Author: Doyle
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: High tolerance for low-performing meetings is not just a symptom of bureaucratic institutions but also of businesses. Because everyone might think that attending meetings is an innate ability, just like eating, drinking, and speaking. However, if you think carefully, eating and drinking are learned from parents, while speaking takes years to master. How much more so for meetings. Our ignorance of meetings has reached an intolerable level. Of course, expecting a book about meetings to teach you how to hold effective meetings immediately is unrealistic. But if you don’t just see it as a book about meetings, you’ll discover a whole new world. For Chinese people who have long been weary of endless meetings and paperwork, the book The Meeting Revolution truly elevates the often important yet frustrating aspect of meetings into an art of management. Meetings themselves are not wrong; the more successful your organization, the more time you spend in meetings. However, knowing when not to hold a meeting, choosing the right discussion methods, meeting formats, seating arrangements, and designing processes to ensure the implementation of meeting decisions—all are crucial to the quality of this time-consuming work. Through this book, we will once again deeply realize that "the devil is in the details." A successful meeting manual. Doyle and Strauss’s book is a classic in meeting design, facilitation, and organization. The text is easy to understand, and the methods introduced are practical. It is a standard meeting manual suitable for everyone.