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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable... About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (Hardcover)
by Patrick Lencioni
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Valuable lessons and advice to help mid and upper managers to turn dull meetings from a tortune into a powerful productivity tool. |
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Author: Patrick Lencioni
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (A Wiley imprint)
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ISBN: 0787968056
Pages: 272
Measurements: 8.7 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00139
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Patrick Lencioni has authored a number of bestselling books including The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Five Dysfunctions of A Team. |
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Continuing the current hot trend of couching business counsel in fables, author Patrick Lencioni takes on the ogre of the deadly dull meeting and through story and advice, wrestles it to the ground. The book is in large part about boring meetings and the author manages to reproduce their tone exactly. The protagonists are the boss, Casey, and an employee named Will who eventually loses his temper in the face of one more stifling, useless meeting. The author plants lessons about meetings throughout the story, revealed by the characters' experiences. However, after the fable comes an undiluted section of advice: about 40 pages of straightforward, expository prose about how to have more effective, engaging meetings. If you want useful workday advice and prefer to save fairytales - even those with built-in lessons - for bedtime, start there. We welcome this solid guidance on how to make meetings work better.
(From quoting Rolf Dobelli, Switzerland)
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Executives, managers, entrepreneurs, government and non-profit leaders, professionals, and MBAs.
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Patrick Lencioni is president of The Table Group, a San Francisco Bay Area management consulting firm, and author of the best-selling books: The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive and The Five Temptations of a CEO. In addition to his work as an executive coach and consultant, Pat is a sought-after speaker. Prior to founding The Table Group, he worked at the management consulting firm Bain & Company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase, where he was vice president of organizational development. He is on numerous advisory boards and sits on the National Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. Over the years, Pat has worked with hundreds of executive teams and CEOs - all struggling, at one time or another, with the potential for dysfunction among their teams.
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The thought of meetings makes most business people miserable, but they're a critical and unavoidable part of what we do. Through fictional narrative, modeling, and practical solutions, Lencioni shows how to turn meetings from painful and tedious to productive, compelling, and even energizing. The story follows an executive who finds his job on the line and his future dependent on his ability to dramatically improve his disastrous meetings. An irreverent graduate student comes into the picture with fresh ideas and a new perspective to help the executive turn things around. This engrossing and concise book will help improve morale, effectiveness, and the bottom-line at the office.
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Chapter One
THE MAN
Most of his employees would describe Casey as an extraordinary man-but just an ordinary CEO.
On a personal level, they genuinely liked their leader. Casey was a devoted husband, a loving father to his four children, a committed parishioner at Sacred Heart Church, and a helpful friend and neighbor. It was almost impossible not to like-even admire-the man. Which made his limitation as a leader all the more mystifying.
HIS STORY
The McDaniel family had lived modestly in Carmel for the past fifty years, and Casey grew up on or around the many golf courses in the area, usually as a caddy or gardener. His affinity for golf was matched only by his love for computers, so he left home after high school to attend the University of Arizona on a golf scholarship, where he studied electrical engineering and computer science. Four years later he graduated toward the middle of his academic class, but at the top of the Pac-10 Conference in golf.
The lure of joining the PGA Tour, and someday playing back home at Pebble Beach in front of friends and family, was too much for Casey to resist. So he joined a qualifying tour where he quickly became one of the more popular players on the circuit with his quiet humor and generosity toward any fellow golfers who needed a little advice about their stroke.
Over the course of the next five years, Casey won a few more than his share of second-tier tournaments and earned enough money to keep his head far above water. But just as he was about to break through to the big tour, he developed a chronic case of what golfers call the yips-an almost clinical disorder that makes it difficult to remain steady while in the act of putting. Plenty of promising players had their careers cut short by the pseudo-psychological yips, and Casey reluctantly counted himself among them.
Never one to let disappointment keep him down for too long, Casey returned home with a new sense of purpose-and an idea. In a matter of months, he got married, bought a tiny bungalow with the earnings he had saved, hired two local programmers, and began hacking away at what he believed would be the most realistic golf video game that the market had ever seen.
The initial results would wildly exceed even his expectations.
BREAK
Within two years of launching his company, Yip Software, Casey released his first product, which immediately set the standard for realism in all sports-related games. Because of his in-depth background in the sport, the game reflected deep knowledge of many of the subtle aspects of actual golf venues, including of course, the putting greens.
Almost immediately the game became a favorite of the most important focus group of customers imaginable: golfers themselves.
Because he had become close friends with many players who were now on the tour, Casey was able to arrange inexpensive but effective sponsorship deals with a few of the better young players. But it was a purely accidental occurrence that propelled Yip's success beyond being a niche video game and onto the pages of Sports Illustrated.
One of Casey's friends won his first PGA tournament less than a year after the product had been released. During his post-tournament press conference, he was asked about the improvement in his putting. Almost embarrassed, he admitted, "I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I think it may have something to do with a video game I've been playing lately...."
And the cat was out of the bag.
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Ken Wilcox (CEO, Silicon Valley Bank) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
Death by Meeting is about much more than meetings; it's about an entire management philosophy. I read a lot of books on management, and Lencioni's are among the very best. They form the basis for our approach at Silicon Valley Bank. |
Jim Mellado (President, Willow Creek Association) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
Lencioni has done it again! Insightful. Practical. Ready-to-implement solutions. If you lead people, you can’t afford to miss this book. It’s an absolute must-read. |
Curt Nonomaque (President and CEO, VHA Inc.) (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
We've put Pat's theories into practice and they work. Our meetings are more productive, our communication is clearer, and the team’s commitment to decisions is much greater. |
Sandy Alderson (Executive VP of Operations, Major League Baseball) , USA
<2006-12-28 00:00>
Meetings are such a critical element of effective organizational communication. Lencioni has provided a concise, entertaining, and inventive guide to improving meeting structure, participation, and results. Thumbs up for this insightful tale. |
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