8MEETINGS:From Energy Buster to Energy Booster

“I practically live in meetings. From the time I arrive in the morning until the time I leave, I am in back-to-back meetings. Sometimes I’m double- and triple-booked. I never have time to just think,” says our client Gloria, the vice president of application development at a Fortune 200 company.

Gloria is responsible for delivering high-quality IT projects on time and on budget. She and her team must work closely with business analysts, programmers, and architects to implement solutions for her customers. Consequently, she leads and participates in a lot of meetings. If Gloria has 10 people attend an hourlong meeting, that’s 10 hours that could have been spent reducing backlog, serving customers, ...

Get Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business, with a foreword by Tom Rath now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.