Boring Meetings Suck: Get More Out of Your Meetings, or Get Out of More Meetings

Foreword

What's that loud sucking sound?

Oh … it's your MEETING.

You'd think you'd know by now.

Meetings suck.

And BORING meetings?

They suck the most.

When Jon Petz and I began collaborating on the original version of this book in 2006, we decided to poke fun at some of the worst meetings we'd ever had the mis-fortune to attend. We offered humorous suggestions on how to improve a bad situation—all the boring meetings you have to facilitate and attend.

But you weren't listening.

You went right on having your boring meetings, inviting even more attendees and putting them into a coma with your pointless PowerPoint slides.

What choice did Jon have?

You've forced him to create a bigger, badder, louder alarm clock to wake you up to all the time, energy, creativity, and money you're wasting by meeting in boring and banal ways.

Consider this revised and updated version of Boring Meetings Suck a paginated intervention—a tough-love text to help you help yourself. Jon has added chapters about using technology to reduce the number of meetings, identifying meeting types, and helping you to decide whether a meeting is even necessary in the first place. (That's right. Nobody said you had to hold meetings at all!)

But take it slow.

The information is this book flies in the face of how the corporate world has trained you. At first, use the Boring Meetings Sucks SRDs (Suckification Reduction Devices) to lower the suck level of your meetings. Once you're comfortable doing that, then strive to eliminate ...