meetings

Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get Results
$24.95
This book contains the simple groundrules or tools for effective meetings. I have used these tools to keep meetings short and crisp or I have applied them to longer term projects that required long meetings. Using the tools in Meeting Excellence, I have been able to keep the teams focused and productive. In this era of multi-tasking and ever decreasing lead times, short, focused and productive meetings are key to achieving our corporate goals.

The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings
$16.95
I have to say that reading this book was a waste of time - a bigger waste of time than the worst meeting ever! The book is written for morons. It's all bullet points and idiotic, irrelevant quotations from Ben Franklin and Shakespeare. I wish I could find a decent book on managing meetings - this one is certainly not it.

Successful Meetings: How to Plan, Prepare, and Execute Top-Notch Business Meetings
$24.95
Recessions are particularly stressful for those who must plan their organization's next meeting. Your success and ability to stay within budget is vital to succeeding in lousy economic times. Amazingly, those individuals who plan and manage meetings are frequently under appreciated by their peers. Like an executive chief in a busy kitchen they must juggle a thousand details to satisfy an array of business appetites. This book clearly provides you with sound advice, tactics and proven ideas plus the inspiration you need to make this Herculean task look easy. As a motivational speaker I work with dozens and dozens of meeting planners each year. I see firsthand every day how daunting planning a meeting can be. The authors reinforce a powerful message about having fun on the job that was also expertly explained in the book Speaking of Success. Incorporating fun into your job and thus your meeting can play an enormous role in your overall success. The recession we are dealing with makes budgeting more important than ever. This book will walk you through the process so easily your peers might just promote you CFO after your next meeting. I will recommend this book to all my clients who plan or support meetings

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (J-B Lencioni Series)
$24.95
Have short, to the point meetings, and have things decided at them.

This book drones on and on with a truly rephrensible made-up example. It is diadic generally very poorly written. The advice is trite and quite frankly intuative.