READ THIS BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING

This is an accessible guide to making meetings more effective, efficient, and worthy of attending. READ THIS BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING is a call to action employees and their bosses need to create companies that do meaningful work. The status quo must go. Now. Before it’s too late.

If an operating room were as sloppily run as our meetings, patients would die. If a restaurant kitchen put as little planning into the meal as we put into our meetings, dinner would never be served. Worst of all, our meeting culture is changing how we focus, what we focus on, and what decisions we make. But there is an answer. A new kind of meeting: the Modern Meeting. Starting today, that’s how we’re going to do business.

Culture change occurs when a transformational idea spreads to enough people. Like a virus that makes its way from person to person, spreading exponentially faster, so can the Modern Meeting and its seven critical principles of effective meeting management. Pittampalli shares examples of transforming workplaces by revamping the purpose of the meeting and a company's meeting culture. Simply put, he wants companies to stop wasting time.

Al Pittampalli is a speaker and consultant who has helped organizations such as NASA, Abbott Labs, and Kaiser Permanente transform meetings, make decisions, and coordinate complex teams.