I guess if you are reading this book, at some point you’ll have experienced something like this. In the majority of cases, this is effectively what happens: We don’t have time or we are in too much of a hurry to get it right. On the other hand, we can see the example of Marissa Mayer . Mayer (now part of the Yahoo team) used to hold an average of 70 meetings a week.She was the last stop before engineers and project managers got the opportunity to pitch their ideas to Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Marissa is committed to “micro meetings” which in the end are a very much more structured and effective way to perform a high volume of meetings.
Surveys carried out at the University of California and the University of Minnesota's training & development research centers show that on average, the managers of American companies spend around 50% of their working hours in meetings.We just need to keep in mind that this is a company activity which can be studied, and the outline or skeleton of the process standardized, evaluated and improved in an endless cycle.
In this book we will make a compilation of major mistakes people make when preparing, celebrating and concluding meetings, as well as providing an outline of how most common company meetings should be conducted. Most importantly, we will generate mental models and structures for our company or business, by which to do things right in a systematic and habitual manner.
It was a pleasure to compile data on today’s best practices for effective meetings. Research was carried out in several of the most important multinational companies,(European and American entities), through interviews with contact employees and by using anonymous surveys with company directors.
In a nutshell, I'd love you to use this publication as a tool, in order to improve the productivity of your company. Do you consider this to be a suitable goal, one that we might achieve together?
If you feel that it is, let’s get started…
Surveys carried out at the University of California and the University of Minnesota's training & development research centers show that on average, the managers of American companies spend around 50% of their working hours in meetings.We just need to keep in mind that this is a company activity which can be studied, and the outline or skeleton of the process standardized, evaluated and improved in an endless cycle.
In this book we will make a compilation of major mistakes people make when preparing, celebrating and concluding meetings, as well as providing an outline of how most common company meetings should be conducted. Most importantly, we will generate mental models and structures for our company or business, by which to do things right in a systematic and habitual manner.
It was a pleasure to compile data on today’s best practices for effective meetings. Research was carried out in several of the most important multinational companies,(European and American entities), through interviews with contact employees and by using anonymous surveys with company directors.
In a nutshell, I'd love you to use this publication as a tool, in order to improve the productivity of your company. Do you consider this to be a suitable goal, one that we might achieve together?
If you feel that it is, let’s get started…
