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A review by bethpeninger
Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...about Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business by Patrick Lencioni
4.0
Another leadership fable. It's the title that caught my attention - Death by Meeting. How many hallelujahs are being said upon reading that title? We all know how it feels to be stuck in a meeting in which we can feel our very life being sucked out of us. I read this in my CE of the workplace.
This was a really interesting and informative way of looking at the problem of meetings and how to solve them. I realized while reading this that the current ELT at my workplace has either read this book and implemented its ideas or just somehow "knew" to follow this model for meetings. I'm guessing one of them read the book. I don't mean that as an insult but they follow this model so closely that somebody on the team had to have brought it to the table, so to speak.
Lencioni writes a leadership fable (it's all the rage you know) about bad meetings and how they impact the entire organization - morale and productivity. Every action or lack thereof touches and affects others, nothing is 100% isolated and contained to itself. Workplace morale, productivity, engagement, etc are all created by how the ELT conducts their meetings because what happens, or doesn't happen, in those meetings filters down to everyone each of the ELT oversees.
About a year ago I started changing the way I recorded and had meetings with my boss. Reading this gave me reminders of practices I had considered but never implemented and ideas of how to improve the meetings we have and how I can help him troubleshoot other meetings he may be having that aren't getting any results. I found this book to be a great resource.
This was a really interesting and informative way of looking at the problem of meetings and how to solve them. I realized while reading this that the current ELT at my workplace has either read this book and implemented its ideas or just somehow "knew" to follow this model for meetings. I'm guessing one of them read the book. I don't mean that as an insult but they follow this model so closely that somebody on the team had to have brought it to the table, so to speak.
Lencioni writes a leadership fable (it's all the rage you know) about bad meetings and how they impact the entire organization - morale and productivity. Every action or lack thereof touches and affects others, nothing is 100% isolated and contained to itself. Workplace morale, productivity, engagement, etc are all created by how the ELT conducts their meetings because what happens, or doesn't happen, in those meetings filters down to everyone each of the ELT oversees.
About a year ago I started changing the way I recorded and had meetings with my boss. Reading this gave me reminders of practices I had considered but never implemented and ideas of how to improve the meetings we have and how I can help him troubleshoot other meetings he may be having that aren't getting any results. I found this book to be a great resource.