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    The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done
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    The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done

    By Mike Song, Vicki Halsey and Tim Burress

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    About this ebook

    Are meetings taking over your life? You’re not alone. Meet Iris, a sales director so overwhelmed by meetings that she feels like a hamster on a wheel—in fact, she’s turned into one. Just in time, she meets a coach—a leading meeting efficiency expert—with a simple system that helps her regain her sanity and humanity.

    The coach’s secret is a laser-like focus on the five biggest meeting pain points:

    1. Meeting overload: Professionals waste twenty-four days a year in useless meetings.

    2. Missing success ingredients: ninety percent of all professionals attend meetings that lack a clearly stated objective and agenda.

    3. Virtual-meeting chaos: Disinterested participants + endless technical glitches huge amounts of wasted time.

    4. Agenda adrift: Goals are missed when meetings veer off course.

    5. Action distraction: Incomplete action items result in delayed projects and missed deadlines.

    The coach demonstrates that these five challenges are damaging Iris’s career and costing the world over a trillion dollars each year. He provides practical new solutions that rapidly transform Iris from victim to victor. These solutions are tailored to the technology-driven world in which Iris lives—she discovers how to use e-calendars, PDAs, and virtual meetings to make her life easier, not more complicated. She applies the solutions, gets immediate results, and reclaims her life. The Hamster Revolution for Meetings focuses on a small number of high-impact best practices that really work. Included is a landmark case study that shows how 3,000 Capital One associates reclaimed ten days per year while improving meeting effectiveness by over 35 percent.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateJun 23, 2009
    ISBN9781609944599

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      Corny, silly story is used to provide information. Maybe this is best, since the advice on running meetings is rather dry. Overall, it appears to have good advice.