Dealing with Meetings You Can't Stand: Meet Less and Do More

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Finale and Next Step: How We Came to Meet

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.

—WAYNE GRETZKY

As we begin the descent to our destination, which is you equipped with the strategies to transform your meetings, I’d like to share a brief history of how this book came to be in your hands.

My father was a German thrown into the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, where he met and married my mother, who was from Lodz and an identical twin. In August 1944, they were sent to Auschwitz. Identical twins usually were turned over to Dr. Mengele for experiments. ...