Stop the Meeting I Want to Get Off!: How to Eliminate Endless Meetings While Improving Your Team's Communication, Productivity, and Effectiveness How to Eliminate Endless Meetings While Improving Your Team's Communication, Productivity, and Effec

by Snair, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780071411066
• ISBN10: 0071411062
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-12
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Less talk, more action: A guide to better communication, heightened productivity, and fewer meetingsMeetings are the bane of modern corporate culture. Today's managers spend between 25 percent and 75 percent of their workday in meetings, at least half of which are unproductive, if not downright destructive. In a book that is sure to be warmly embraced by beleaguered managers, a decorated Desert Storm platoon leader turned top corporate consultant offers managers a proven system for running a department, or an entire enterprise, without unnecessary meetings.Successfully adopted by Johnson & Johnson, GE, McKinsey & Company, MetLife, Verizon, and other prestigious Snair clients, the one-on-one management methods outlined in this book: Improve a manager's ability to gather input Streamline the communication process Make influencing key members of an organization much easier Increase productivity, without stifling openness and job satisfaction Make managers more "hands-on" by using responsibility as a reward

Author Biography

Scott Snair serves as an academic adminstrator with Seton Hall University's Stillman School of Business.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Ground Attack to Corporate Combat
Stop Surrendering to Meetings	p. 1
Recognize What Doesn't Work and Why	p. 23
Discover the Lost Art of One-on-One Management	p. 47
Embrace the Role of Team Leader	p. 73
Try the Process of Organizational Channeling	p. 95
Get Comfortable with Delegating	p. 121
Use Technology When Possible	p. 145
Get a Mentor, Be a Mentor	p. 167
Avoid the Meetings of Others	p. 195
Know the Ways to Cheat	p. 221
Conclusion: Accept the Challenge!	p. 243
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 255
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