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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. This includes those coming as guests to present at a board meeting, as well as some board members, themselves. People not contributing during the meeting. Poor chairing, meaning the same people dominate each meeting and take up the most airtime.

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8 New Leadership Books

Brimstone Consulting

New Books on Leadership and Change. Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. Comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders, the list included recent publications and ones that have stood the test of time. 8 Insightful New Reads.

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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. A scenario like this leaves people feeling their time is being wasted in meetings, which makes them disengaged.

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Business Book Review: Start-Up Nation

Management Consulted

Today is an interesting book review on Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer. This book is a fantastic summary of creative ideas, innovations, startup and entrepreneurial genius that have been churned up by Israel. 3 INTERESTING BOOK INSIGHTS. Buckle up for an exciting ride into Israel’s entrepreneurial history!

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Fidelity, compression and culture

Seth Godin Blog

The alphabet is a miracle, one that is compounded by books. And the lessons we learn from this cornerstone of modern culture apply to organizations, meetings, tech, politics and almost everything we do together. And meetings? Meetings at work are largely low fidelity and ultimately quite compressed.

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Business Book Review: The Starbucks Experience

Management Consulted

If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, we’d love to hear from you! This is not just your normal business book about a company. This is a book about Starbucks, a company that has managed in the short time of its existence to change cultural and societal norms, and make a $5 cup of coffee normal.

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Book Recommendation: Four Thousand Weeks

Kai Davis

The best new book I read this year was Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman: [link]. After I finished reading it (in March of 2022), I sent a text to a friend saying something like this: Four Thousand Weeks will probably be the best new book I read this year—six out of five stars. I wish everyone would read this book.