Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done

From Rebecca Hinds, PhD--organizational expert who has helped Fortune 500 companies fix their fractured collaboration--comes a bold, battle-tested blueprint for tackling the workplace's biggest time-wasters: meetings. nMeetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures--designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today's digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn't just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organizations. n n Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration. The secret? Treat them like products. Using seven product design principles, you'll turn your meetings into well-designed products that actually drive work forward and serve your most important users--the people in your organization. You'll learn: n n - Why every organization needs a Meeting Doomsday to reset collaboration, and how to strategically orchestrate one at your company. n - How to fix your communication system so meetings are a last resort, not a knee-jerk default. n - Which meeting metrics matter--and which do more harm than good. n - How to inject moments of delight into your meetings so people genuinely want to show up. n - When to integrate technology into your meetings so you enhance collaboration, rather detract from it. n n More than just a practical guide, Your Best Meeting Ever is a rallying call to rethink how we collaborate in the modern workplace. Whether you're a leader or an individual contributor, this powerful book will nudge you to be audacious--to challenge the existing norms and embrace new paradigms--so you'll never dread another meeting again.n