How to Run a Successful Meeting - In Half the Time

By Milo O. Frank

Book Overview

This book tackles America's biggest office headache -- meetings. It gives you dozens of time-slashing, result-producing strategies that cover every aspect of business meetings and have been office-tested by some of America's top managers and executives. Tells you how to: avoid unnecessary meetings by offering alternative solutions; focus a meeting's objectives by defining your own goals; avoid time-consuming explanations by putting the details in a handout; get the decision makers on your side before the meeting; put an end to rambling debates by calling for "the vote"; and make sure people bring well-thought-out ideas to follow-up meetings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067164470X
• ISBN13: 9780671644703
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A LOT better that I expected!

This is a surprisingly useful book. It is a quick read (about an hour or two); the basic format is a question, answer, and illustrative anecdote. I was pleased with the stories presented in the book and picked up a number of pointers. While the book starts out a bit on the obvious side (Q: When should you call a meeting? A: When a meeting is the best way to achieve your objective.), it moves into some though provoking issues such as dealing with interruptions, staggering attendance for optimum use of peoples' time, how to deal with those who want to go into depth on everything, etc. While some of the material on audio/visual material is amusingly out of date, the principles behind them are sound. The corporate world would be better off if everyone read and applied the principles found in this book.