From the library
Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
Patrick Lencioni, 2004
In one paragraph
Patrick Lencioni's solution to the most painful problem in business: bad meetings. Provides a framework for running effective, engaging meetings by understanding different types of meetings and creating appropriate structure, conflict, and clarity for each type.
Also tagged
Where this sits in the operating system
Systems Over Goals
People & Relationships
Compound Leverage
Key insights
Meetings are boring because there is no conflict, and there is no conflict because nothing is genuinely at stake in the room.
Four different meetings with four different purposes: daily check-in, weekly tactical, monthly strategic, quarterly review. Mixing them is the failure.
Never resolve a strategic question in a tactical meeting. The tyranny is trying to do both in the same hour.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Using generic meeting format for all purposes
Accepting superficial agreement without real debate
Discussing irrelevant topics that don't impact participants
Starting meetings without proper context or background
Using meeting time for one-way information sharing
The same idea, argued differently
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The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Patrick Lencioni
- Published
- 2004
- Category
- Business
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