TY  - BOOK
AU  - Axelrod,Richard H.
AU  - Axelrod,Emily M.
TI  - Let's stop meeting like this: tools to save time and get more done 
SN  - 9781626560819
AV  - HF5734.5 .A94 2014
U1  - 658.4/56 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - Berrett Koehler Publishers, Inc.
KW  - Business meetings
KW  - Meetings
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 149151) and index; How to get your work done in meetings -- The meeting canoe -- Welcome people -- Connect people to each other and the task -- Discover the way things are -- Elicit people's dreams -- Decide -- Attend to the end -- First aid for meetings -- Metting basics : five steps to meeting success -- Leaders : three steps to meeting effectiveness -- Contributors : three steps to meeting effectiveness -- Facilitators : three steps to meeting effectiveness -- Our handoff to you
N2  - Most people regard meetings as places where productivity goes to die. How different would it be if they were places where you could actually get your work done - right there in the meeting? Richard and Emily Axelrod have invested thirty years answering this question, and they have a field-tested answer. Using the same work design principles that transformed the mind-numbing assembly line into the dynamic factory floor, and that make video games so engaging, their new book offers a flexible, repeatable process that has already been used to run thousands of productive meetings in all kinds of organizations. It takes more than an agenda and a note-taker. The Axelrods show how to design every aspect of a meeting - from the way you greet people at the beginning to how you sum up at the end - so that the experience will be energizing rather than enervating, and relevant and helpful to every participant. Their detailed, six-stage approach, which they dub the Meeting Canoe (since, like a canoe, it adapts to changing conditions and is a collective effort) is a seismic shift in the way we view, use, and participate in meetings. The many current users of this system will never go back. Neither will you
ER  -