
The Hamster Revolution for Meetings
How to Meet Less and Get More Done
Author: Vicki Halsey, Tim Burress, Mike Song
Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt
Unabridged: 3 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 07/20/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Synopsis
1. Meeting overload: Professionals waste twenty-four days a year in useless meetings.
2. Missing success ingredients: Ninety percent of all professionals attend meetings that lack a clearly stated objective and agenda.
3. Virtual-meeting chaos: Disinterested participants + endless technical glitches= huge amounts of wasted time.
4. Agenda adrift: Goals are missed when meetings veer off course.
5. Action distraction: Incomplete action items result in delayed projects and missed deadlines.
Good news- Help is on the way! Meet Iris, a sales manager so overwhelmed by meetings she feels like a hamster on a wheel.
Just in time, Iris finds a coach—a meeting efficiency and etiquette expert with a simple plan that helps her to meet less, make better use of meeting technology, and get more done.

