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

I only wish my bosses would read this. I need to slide a few under their doors.Yeah, there are some comical elements that don't fit my style of meetings (in pharmaceutical supply) but there are so many fantastic gems (SRD's...love that!) that are so helpful and useful. Love the starting late sucks chapter - love all the presentation advice and nuggets of help. The time savings of those two elements is worth ten times the cost of the book. Highly suggest it,I also just read the review for the guy who calls the author a clown. I went back and read that part again - so, if the person doesn't get the setup to the joke, then they missed the whole idea. I don't think that was a good review. Why everything won't relate, everyone will find NEW ideas that will relate. Loved it.

Jon Petz provides an irreverent look at common meeting problems along with potentially very useful solutions. This book would be useful for someone who wanted to skim through the contents to extract a few gems.In terms of criticism, two items come immediately to mind:1. The irreverent tone is kind of engaging for the first few chapters. After that, the tone becomes somewhat irritating. Petz spends a lot of effort trying to write like an arrogant adolescent - and succeeds. However, he sacrifices readability and clarity of presentation in the process.2. The solutions offered, in my mind, tend to be surface-level gimmicks. In all fairness, I can see how some of the suggestions would add a sense of urgency to a meeting. Tried and true solutions, like creating an agenda for meetings, are also presented.Overall, I thought the book was a-okay and was well-represented by the book cover. What you see on the cover is what you get in the contents.

Meetings SUCK in general... Call me anti-social or just call me bored...Boring Meetings Suck is the antidote to the meeting "poison" in corporate America today...Jon Petz book is well written and a thoroughly enjoyable read! I own the Kindle edition...Thanks Jon for saving us all from meetings that SUCK!

Great book! Recommended to all of my staff at work.

Stocked full of ideas- some practical, some outrageous but with that title what did you expect.

This book is a wonderful resource for anyone who runs or attends meetings. It is relevant, full of great ideas, and fun! I can't believe how many of the author's examples come up in our meetings everyday. I think I've just grown to accept the fact that I will lose time attending these meetings. Now, thanks to the author's suggestions, I see that there are things that I can do to minimize that lost time.

Where was this book a few years ago when I really needed it? This is of value for any kind of meeting: of course business first, community meetings, board meetings, etc. as they all seem to waste time for most of the same reasons. Some new, unique ideas that can save you time in the future. Most 1 hr meetings run into 1.5 to 2 hours. If the first 1/2 hour was spent reading this book, you could still probably end the meeting in 1 hour with the info you had just gained.

More silly than practical. If your boss is dogging you to read something for Personal Development (much as mine was) --this book is an excellent choice for diversion without boredom or substance...but if you're actually looking for real meeting strategies? Look elsewhere.

Boring Meetings ist eigentlich der falsche Titel, denn es geht hier um schlecht gemachte Meetings, ineffiziente Meetings, miese Meeting-Kultur, Mißbrauch von Meetings.Manche Meetings nerven wirklich. In manchen Unernehmen nerven alle Meetings. Manchmal sind sie nur Zeitverschwendung. Aber manchem Unternehmen kosten schlechte Meetings die ihre Existenz. Denn Meetings sind notwendig, ein exzellentes Mittel um Probleme zu lösen, Teams abzustimmen, Projekte zu koordinieren. Aber schlechte Meetings erreichen das Gegenteil.Man kann nicht in einer kurzen Rezension alle Ratschläge skizzieren, die dieses Buch enthält. Denn es sind viele, sehr viele.Gegliedert nach so ziemlich jedem denkbaren Problem, dass man mit Meetings haben kann (Beispiel: Kapitel 4: "Wie tägliche Meetings nerven" Unterkapitel: Mangelnde Vorbereitung, Keine Agenda, Kein Follow Up, Termine finden, falsche Uhrzeit, zu viele Teilnehmer (Overinvitation), Beginn mit Verspätung, Hund-von-Leine-gelassen-Sysndrom, schlechter Besprechungsraum). In dieser Ausführlichkeit geht es weiter bis Kapitel 8 (Über Projektmeetings, Powerpoints, unendlich andauernde Meetings, Störungen, Gastsprecher, Videokonferenzen, Conventions und Deja-vu-Meetings, usw.) Und dann zu jedem Problem, ca. 5-10 Gegenmaßnahmen (SRDs suckification-reduction-devices). Da ist für jeden was dabei.Der häufigste Rat: "Get out"Das geht in die Richting, ereziehen Sie die andere Meetingteilnehmer, Kollegen, Chefs, inde Sie sagen "Ich hab noch wichtiges zu tun, ruft mich an, wenn das Meeting wieder produktiv wird. Dann bin ich sofort wieder da." Das erfordert natürlich ein ziemlich toughes Auftreten. Das kann nicht jeder.Positiv:+ Humor+ trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf+ viele praktikable Lösungen+ der Autor ist offenbar beschlagen mit massiver Business-Erfahrung+ man muss nicht das ganze Buch lesen, es genügt Einleitung und das Kapitel zu dem Problem, das einen am meisten nervet+ gute Anleitung für alle Kollegen (theoretisch, denn...)Negartiv:- zu viel Material, um es jedem Kollegen als Anleitung in die Hand zu drücken.- leider nur auf Englisch :-(

Am afraid I stopped reading this book after chapter two. Just couldn't get around the backwards logic. The author quotes a well-known efficiency expert who has done research on what technology works for people in meetings. The data showed that people prefer paper and pens. So the author of this book says the people who answered the survey are all wrong and the answer is MORE technology (i.e. Twitter, Facebook love events, Google documents, etc.)??When the data says what the people want, listen to what people say. Not everyone at your workplace was born with a cell phone in hand.

Every chairperson needs to read this book