Read This Before Our Next Meeting

<p><b><i>Read This Before Our Next Meeting </i></b><b>is Al Pittampalli''s accessible guide on making meetings more effective, efficient, and worthy of attending</b><br><br>The average office worker spends eleven hours in meetings every week. Yet all that time sitting around a conference table hasn''t made us more productive. If anything, meetings have made work worse.<br><br>Traditional meetings reduce efficiency, kill urgency, and breed compromise and complacency. But there is a solution, a way to have fewer, shorter, more purposeful meetings: Al Pittampalli''s Modern Meeting Standard. By following its eight simple but radical principles you may never have to attend a useless meeting again. <br><br>''I dutifully avoid meetings whenever possible, which is pretty much always. If I were to go to meetings, though, I''d want Al to run them.''<br>Chris Guillebeau, author of <i>The $100 Startup</i> and<i> The Art of Non-Conformity</i></p>