Book description
Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life.
In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he had built from scratch.
“How could my life have unraveled so quickly?” he wondered.
In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary.
Casey McDaniel, the founder and CEO of Yip Software, is in the midst of a problem he created, but one he doesn’t know how to solve. And he doesn’t know where or who to turn to for advice. His staff can’t help him; they’re as dumbfounded as he is by their tortuous meetings.
Then an unlikely advisor, Will Peterson, enters Casey’s world. When he proposes an unconventional, even radical, approach to solving the meeting problem, Casey is just desperate enough to listen.
As in his other books, Lencioni provides a framework for his groundbreaking model, and makes it applicable to the real world. Death by Meeting is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams, and create environments of engagement and passion.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- INTRODUCTION
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I. The Fable
- PREVIEW
- I. Flashback
- II. Plot Point
- III. Protagonist
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IV. Action
- 4.1. FIRST HALF
- 4.2. SECOND HALF
- 4.3. ON THE TABLE
- 4.4. WET FEET
- 4.5. BAD SEQUEL
- 4.6. COMING CLEAN
- 4.7. THE SPARK
- 4.8. FALSE HOPE
- 4.9. CHANGE-UP
- 4.10. FAST BALL
- 4.11. DETENTION
- 4.12. LIGHT BULB
- 4.13. PUSHING THE ENVELOPE
- 4.14. NO PRISONERS
- 4.15. FILM SCHOOL
- 4.16. THE HOOK
- 4.17. MINING
- 4.18. PRACTICE
- 4.19. DRAWING BOARD
- 4.20. BOXED OUT
- 4.21. SECOND SEMESTER
- 4.22. MULTIMEDIA
- 4.23. THE DAILY CHECK-IN
- 4.24. THE WEEKLY TACTICAL
- 4.25. OUT OF THE BAG
- 4.26. G2
- 4.27. THE MONTHLY STRATEGIC
- 4.28. DIRECTING FOR DRAMA
- 4.29. THE QUARTERLY OFF-SITE REVIEW
- 4.30. CHICAGO HAZE
- V. Resolution
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II. The Model
- THE PARADOX OF MEETINGS
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- PROBLEM #1: LACK OF DRAMA
- PROBLEM #2: LACK OF CONTEXTUAL STRUCTURE
- THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF ALL: "THE MYTH OF TOO MANY MEETINGS"
- A FINAL THOUGHT ON MEETINGS
- Weekly Tactical Meeting Guide
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Product information
- Title: Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable . . . About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2004
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780787968052
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