No More Pointless Meetings: Breakthrough Sessions That Will Revolutionize the Way You Work - Couverture souple

Murphy, Martin

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ISBN 10 : 0814431682 ISBN 13 : 9780814431689

Editeur : AMACOM, 2012

Synopsis

No More Pointless Meetings Wasting time in pointless meetings... It's the bane of work life - and the one thing that never seems to change. This book leverages the creativity and knowledge of an organization's people - a potent resource that conventional meetings ignore. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Meetings are the bane of work life: time-consuming and inadequate for addressing today’s innovation and speed-to-market imperatives. Everyone grumbles about them, but nothing ever changes—until now. Martin Murphy has helped dozens of corporate clients transform conventional meetings into workflow sessions that are truly productive by reframing workflow management issues into four critical activities: Issues Management, Innovation, Problem Solving, and Ongoing Planning. By doing so, he has upended the entire concept of the one-size-fits-all traditional meeting model and has set a new standard for collaborative results. Some of the skills you’ll learn from this book include: • How to use Action Plans to improve cognitive and creative productivity in a manner that ensures early ownership of issues, accountability, and transparency. • How to deploy three fast-track collaboration sessions: Issues Management, Innovation, and Problem Solving. • How to stay current with exponential change by installing an Ongoing Planning System and a Planning Database. • How to use Information Gaps to upgrade your Organizational IQ. No More Pointless Meetings gives you workflow management tools to dramatically improve both in-the-flesh and digital collaboration by leveraging the cognitive and creative potential of the individuals who report to you. Martin Murphy is founder and president of QuantumMeetings, a management education consultancy whose clients include organizations of many types and sizes, from start-ups to multibillion-dollar enterprises. His client experience includes the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, IBM, Pillsbury, Lever Brothers, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the City of Atlanta, and nonprofits such as the National Association for Home Care in Washington, DC.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Wasting time in pointless meetings....It’s the bane of work life—and the one thing that never seems to change. But meetings can be highly effective, says Martin Murphy, who has helped a “Who’s Who” of corporate clients transform timesapping meetings into “breakthrough sessions” that are truly productive.

His strategy is not simply to speed them up or make them more palatable with flashier facilitation. Rather, the key is to upend the entire concept of meetings. That means throwing out traditional protocols and using one of four new collaboration models to get more done, faster than ever before. These sessions address:

Issues management: identify, rank, and resolve issues—promoting critical concerns to Action Plan status • Problem solving: thirty-minute sessions for solving complex problems • Innovation: discover the billion-dollar idea that lurks in every organization • Strategic planning: stripped-down protocols for the kind of ongoing, realtime planning required in today’s fast-paced economy

In an era when innovation and speed-to-market rule, No More Pointless Meetings leverages the creativity and knowledge of an organization’s people—a potent resource that conventional meetings ignore.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: AMACOM
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0814431682
• ISBN 13: 9780814431689
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240