Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem
in Business
* Hardcover: 272 pages
* Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (March 4, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0787968056
* ISBN-13: 978-0787968052
The business meeting?a necessary evil or a vital and invigorating component of
running an organization? According to management consultant Lencioni (The Five
Temptations of a CEO), meetings should fit the latter description, but more
often than not, he says, they don't. In this lackluster audio fable, Lencioni
offers practical advice on how to revitalize your business by energizing your
business meetings, but his pallid, passive prose would challenge the most
skilled narrator, and Arthur is no exception. The voice Arthur lends Will, the
young hero of this tale, resembles that of Sesame Street's Ernie on downers,
and the various inflections he gives business owner Casey McDaniel and his
management team don't make up for the characters' lack of character.
Nevertheless, Lencioni's message comes across loud and clear?meetings should be
interactive, not passive, and they should be structured (i.e., issues of
immediate importance should be discussed in "weekly tactical" meetings, and
issues that will fundamentally affect the business should be addressed in
"monthly strategic" meetings). Although managers will find this advice
worthwhile, they would gather just as much if they skipped the sluggish fable
and listened to the last few tracks.
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