Are You Dying in Inefficient Meetings?

Four years after the book Death by Meeting, people are still dying in inefficient meetings. Nothing makes me crazier than to sit in a meeting with someone grandstanding or taking the meeting off on a tangent, wasting everyone's precious time. This problem is rampant, and most people hate it. I surveyed 1000 business people over the last 3 years and found only 7 people who are happy with the efficiency, productivity, and time spent in meetings they attend. That is .7%!!  . . . . not a very good showing. 

The desire to change meetings is pretty universal in the US; the motivation exists; smart business people are running the show - so what's the problem? Here it is in a nutshell:

1. There has been no comprehensive solution or way to implement it. 

2. We are creatures of habit. This is especially true when a habit is part of our culture and there is a long history of doing a certain way. 

3. People are too busy with a multitude of urgent priorities to make the time to step back and figure out the way to change it. Until now...

I just spent a year of my life coming up with a solution. It is a get-to-the-point, cut-out-the-fluff meeting method to replace the current meeting rituals that have their roots in Robert's Rules of Order. 

See "Robert's Rules of Order are Dead" blog entry