Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

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The likelihood of six intelligent people coming to a sincere and complete agreement on a complex and important topic is very low. He co-authored two bestsellers with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons. Death by Meeting” is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams, and create environments of engagement and passion. Key takeaways: conflict is good (you might even say essential), preparation is key for larger conversations, and there is hope for lengthy meetings after all.

It's a reminder that, when done right, meetings don't have to be the bane of our professional lives - they can be powerhouses of strategizing, collaboration, and conflict resolution. Reducing the amount of face to face communication only guarantees more confusion and lack of clarity. Effective off sites provide executives an opportunity to regularly step away from the daily, weekly, or even monthly issues that occupy their attention, so that a holistic, long term review can be conducted.

The thought of meetings makes most business people miserable, but they're a critical and unavoidable part of what we do. Purpose is to help team members to avoid confusion about how priorities are translated into action on a regular basis. As in the author's better-known The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, the exposition takes the form of a serviceably-written (but only just) novella that introduces the ideas, followed by a few chapters in essay form summarising the theory. In Death by Meeting, Patrick Lencioni helps isolate why our meetings tend to be so boring and unproductive and offers practical steps to get the most out our meetings.

He argues that good stories captivate their audience, and to captivate attendees, meetings should bear suspense, dramatic tension, and conflict. As a team lead/executive if you have your team whispering about your meeting as a waste of productive time this book is for you. In these offsite meetings the team may review their strategic direction in light of their competition or industry trends.In his latest engrossing work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. The truth is, the only thing more painful than confronting an uncomfortable topic is pretending it doesn't exist. After the lightning round and Progress Review, the tactical issues – those that must be addressed to ensure short-term objectives are accomplished – will become immediately visible. To make meetings less boring, leaders must look for legitimate reasons to provoke and uncover relevant, constructive ideological conflict. Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni offers a guide to creating effective meetings by introducing different types of meetings and providing strategies to make them more engaging, productive, and purposeful.