Al's book highlights all that is wrong with the `traditional meeting' and suggests a better, more productive way to do business through the `Modern Meeting`. It's almost the opposite of the continual, daily meetings promoted within "Mastering The Rockefeller Habits" by Verne Hamish.
Describing Microsoft Office email appointments as `weapons of mass interruption', Al SCREAMS that it is too easy for people to call a meeting... without thinking or caring about the impact it will have on others. "Its simply what work is about."
Pittampalli believes meetings should be held AFTER a decision has been made, but only if you are willing to change your mind.
Controversial non-fiction or fiction, depending on your point of view, account of the author's own involvement in promoting and securing American interests through economic means.
Well writtern, except for the self-gloating and self-righteousness sections which can be quickly skipped. Reads like a good "cloak-and-dagger" novel, but cast with real events and history.
I can't speak to the facts, but a compelling story, especially as it spins through Vietnam, Panama, Iran, Iraq, Columbia, Venezuela and those events surrounding 9/11. Those that can "connect the dots" will be able to extrapolate onto events occurring in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Tunisia… Read more
If you end each day exhausted, I urge you to read this book. If you already (or wish to) maximize your tasks by agressive time management or productivity tools, you may be forgetting a critical component.
My full review and personal extracts combining a variety of ideas is located at --> [...]
Grounded in the research and consulting they've done with the world's greatest athletes, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz provide a set of ideas and tools to help "Corporate Athletes" function at optimal levels of performance. At the heart of their research is the fact that: "Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance." Time is finite, but the way in which we… Read more
