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Book: Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
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  1. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    Well, strategy. The competitive landscape. Morale. The dynamics of the executive team. Top performers. Bottom performers. Customer satisfaction. Pretty much everything that has a long-term impact on the success of the company. Stuff you just can't cover in weekly or monthly meetings.
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  2. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    It is at once shocking and understandable that intelligent people cannot see the correlation between failing to take the time to get clarity, closure, and buy-in during a meeting, and the time required to clean up after themselves as a result.
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  3. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    Regardless of what position people originally took, once the decision is made, everyone supports it. That's why it is critical that no one hold anything back during the discussion.
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  4. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    You have a passionate, unfiltered, messy, provocative discussion that ends when the leader of the team decides all the information has been aired. At that point, if no one has made a compelling enough argument for making a decision, the leader breaks the tie.
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  5. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    consensus is usually not achievable. The likelihood of six intelligent people coming to a sincere and complete agreement on a complex and important topic is very low.
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  6. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    During the Weekly Tactical, there are two overriding goals: resolution of issues and reinforcement of clarity. Obstacles need to be identified and removed, and everyone needs to be on the same page.
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  7. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular.
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  8. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    Ironically, most leaders of meetings go out of their way to eliminate or minimize drama and avoid the healthy conflict that results from it. Which only drains the interest of employees.
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  9. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    To make our meetings more effective, we need to have multiple types of meetings, and clearly distinguish between the various purposes, formats, and timing of those meetings.
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  10. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    To make meetings less boring, leaders must look for legitimate reasons to provoke and uncover relevant, constructive ideological conflict. By doing so, they'll keep people engaged, which leads to more passionate discussions, and ultimately, to better decisions.
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  11. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity.
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  12. Patrick Lencioni _ Death by Meeting: A Leadership

    When a group of intelligent people come together to talk about issues that matter, it is both natural and productive for disagreement to occur. Resolving those issues is what makes a meeting productive, engaging, even fun.
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