The Surprising Science of Meetings – Steven G. Rogelberg
What might be more useful than sitting through hours of meetings, each day? That hour for self-development, thinking new strategies on how to make meetings truly work – meeting recovery syndrome? Questions instead of agenda topics for best outcomes?
Rogelberg’s a professor at University of North Carolina, consultant to IBM, P&G etc. Book guides on how to organise effective meetings, based on extensive research.
Doesn’t mean eliminating meetings entirely. Instead walking meetings, limiting meetings to 45 minutes, instituting periods of silent self-work. Book features an assessment to diagnose ‘meeting quality‘.
A clear understanding of drivers to make meetings successful? For leaders book provides direction, guidance, relief to change meeting patterns, practices.
“In work-places around the world, meetings are where productivity, creativity go to die. Can we stop wasting time, falling a victim to group think?” Recent estimates suggest employees endure a staggering 55 million meetings a day in US.
This tremendous time investment yields just meagre, modest returns. Reading, quite insightful, engaging.
