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Title: Death by Meeting : A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business by Patrick M. Lencioni ISBN: 0-7879-6805-6 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 20 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Death By Meeting
Comment: Lencioni has done it again. He truly has a gift to tell stories and this fable captures your attention from beginning to end. Executives seem to be comfortable with meetings that lack luster, context and clarity -- no wonder smart people make horrible decisions at times. When something is so wildly broken, the only way to fix it is a whole new approach - which Lencioni provides in his meetings model outlined in the second part of the book. Like his previous book, this one will be a best-seller for a long, long time (I did just notice it appeared on the BusinessWeek Best-seller list already).
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the 5 Most Valuable Business Books I've Ever Read
Comment: We spend incredible amounts of time in meetings and so few are remotely productive. As the CEO, you know that your team has to have meetings, but you search for opportunities to cancel one and let your team focus on other things that you know will be a lot more productive. Until Now...
This book turned my whole view of meetings upside down and gave me a simple, clear plan for managing meetings going forward. We just implemented the changes and everyone on my team loves the new way we do meetings. My entire team now swears by this meeting format and approach.
Pat's plan is so simple and makes so much common sense, you start to wonder why no one was running their meetings this way before. I'm going to give this book to my best business contacts, because I know that this will be one of the best gifts that they have ever received.
Rating: 4
Summary: to conflict, or not to conflict?
Comment: for a business management book, this one is pretty good. the fable is fairly interesting and the book is a fairly quick read.
what makes this a 4 star book though is the concept of instilling conflict into meetings. too many executives feel the team concept requires acquiescence by the members. stay in your silo and nod approval. the importance of conflict not only adds interest to meetings, it creates open discussion and the exchange of different ideas and perspectives. it fosters the creative thought process. it challenges all members to problem solve. it requires the leader to support his position and suffer the pangs of self doubt. in the end you end up with a better decision--not a unanimous one.
i am a believer that if you surround yourself with people who will only tell you what you want to hear, you don't need them. you need people who will challenge you to test your ideas and create different ones. if handled properly, your meetings won't just be more interesting, your decisions will be better!
that's the message of this book.
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Title: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni ISBN: 0787960756 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick M. Lencioni ISBN: 0787954039 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Leadership Fables of Patrick Lencioni, Box Set, contains: The Five Temptations of a CEO; The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive; The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni ISBN: 0787968072 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 08 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni ISBN: 0787944335 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 14 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Ram Charan, Charles Burck, Larry Bossidy ISBN: 0609610570 Publisher: Crown Business Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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