num_pages: 192
description:  One of the ten Leadership books to watch in 2019 The Washington Post  One of the top business books everybody will be reading in 2019  Business Insider  As seen on CBS This Morning In workplaces around the world meetings are where productivity and creativity go to die. Steven Rogelberg is the worlds leading expert on how to fix them and here he shares the best evidence on how we can stop wasting time and falling victim to groupthink. Adam Grant New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A recent estimate suggests that employees endure a staggering 55 million meetings a day in the United States. This tremendous time investment yields only modest returns. No organization made up of human beings is immune from the all-too-common meeting those that fail to engage those that inadvertently encourage participants to tune out and those that blatantly disregard participants' time. Most companies and leaders view poor meetings as an inevitable cost of doing business. But managers can take researchers now have a clear understanding of the key drivers that make meetings successful. In The Surprising Science of Meetings Steven G. Rogelberg researcher and consultant to some of the world's most successful companies draws from extensive research analytics and data mining and survey interviews with over 5000 employees across a range of industries to share the proven practices and techniques that help managers and employees enhance the quality of their meetings. For those who lead and participate in meetings Rogelberg provides immediate direction guidance and relief offering a how-to guide to change your working life starting today.
language: English
title: The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance
publisher: Oxford University Press