Stop the Meeting I Want to Get Off!: How to Eliminate Endless Meetings While Improving Your Team's Communication, Productivity, and Effectiveness

by Scott Snair

Less talk, more action: A guide to better communication, heightened productivity, and fewer meetings

Meetings are the bane of modern corporate culture. Today's managers spend between 25 percent and 75 percent of their workday in meetings, at least half of which are unproductive, if not downright destructive. In a book that is sure to be warmly embraced by beleaguered managers, a decorated Desert Storm platoon leader turned top corporate consultant offers managers a proven system for running a department, or an entire enterprise, without unnecessary meetings.

Successfully adopted by Johnson & Johnson, GE, McKinsey & Company, MetLife, Verizon, and other prestigious Snair clients, the one-on-one management methods outlined in this book:


Improve a manager's ability to gather input
Streamline the communication process
Make influencing key members of an organization much easier
Increase productivity, without stifling openness and job satisfaction
Make managers more "hands-on" by using responsibility as a reward

Genres: Business

260 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published February 19, 2003

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Normally, this sort of book is not my thing, as I have little to no interest in management/the business world. But, the author here is a friend and former co-worker of mine, so for that I checked this out. I really don't have anything else to compare it to, but Scott's a smart man and he makes good points here about human nature and leadership worth considering at the very least. For the lazy, much of the material here is recycled into his shorter, Kindle-only "business parable" "There's No Groupthink On Planet Inc," which is not to be found on Goodreads.

And now, ironically or not, I have a meeting to get ready for...

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are times when office managers spend too much time in meetings that just detracts from getting work done. This book has several positive points to make, that can help keep teh PLUS side fo communications, while reducing the Time drain.

Useful for Managers, and non managers.

[Michael Rushnak · Rating 3 out of 5]

Less is more....meeting purposes...not for just providing informnation but for making decisions...