Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

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The strategy sounds good, but will require some tweaking, I think to work in various situations, and I don't think it provides an end-to-end solution to business woes, or even challenges with making your meetings effective. teams should commit to doing Daily Check-ins for a set period of time—perhaps two months—before evaluating whether or not they are working. After the lightning round and Progress Review, the tactical issues – those that must be addressed to ensure short-term objectives are accomplished – will become immediately visible.

One of the reasons why movies are interesting is that they're all based around conflict, and we need more conflict in meetings.Not to mention, you have deprived your team to actively engage in the meeting and work towards a better solution. I do see the value of his process in that it will keep people both focused on goals and accountable to them. Everyone, but especially you, as the leader of the group, needs to be looking for places where people have different opinions but aren't necessarily putting them out there.

It gives the group a clear picture of the state of the business, but lengthy discussions on underlying issues should be avoided here. He co-authored two bestsellers with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons. Work on your ability to conduct a great meeting just like you would public speaking or your putting stroke.Daily Check-In: a quick five-minute meeting in which each person reports their activity for the day. Counter to conventional wisdom about meetings, the agenda for a weekly tactical should not be set before the meeting, but only after the lightning round and regular reporting activities have taken place. In addition, Lencioni speaks to thousands of leaders each year at world class organizations and national conferences.

This could have included more examples with the team doing the good meetings, the different types of good meetings. This often requires a change of scenery so that executives can interact with one another on a more personal level and remind themselves of their collective commitments to the team. As Death By Meeting reveals, Will’s interest in movies plays a significant role in how he draws a parallel between movies and meetings and makes a successful and convincing case out of it.Monthly Strategic meetings should occur at least once a month, but impromptu strategic meetings may be scheduled more frequently. Mainly tactical issues that should be addressed to ensure that short-term objectives are not in jeopardy.