Boring Meetings Suck - Your real life guide to Effective meetings, presentations, Powerpoint and event planning [Paperback]

Jon Petz (Author), Don Snyder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 2007

Boring Meetings Suck is entertaining and educational due to its satirical look at the flawed model of business meetings, and its common sense solutions to these flaws. Boring Meetings Suck puts the reader inside their last project, team, sales or status meeting, recreating the painfully boring experience they may have had and allowing them to laugh out loud at just how accurately the situations in the book are portrayed. Boring Meetings Suck also outlines what readers can do to personally improve meetings through the use of the authors' MSRDs (Meeting Suckification Reduction Devices.)
An indispensable resource for anyone who has to plan, conduct, present or sit through a meeting on any subject. (also makes a find gift to slip under the door of that person who represents the very title of the book) Boring Meetings Suck will prove of equal value to both the successful executive and the suburban soccer mom.

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About the Author

Jon Petz is one of America's top corporate speakers and entertainers who spent 13 years enduring some of the worst corporate meetings and events imaginable. Jon has worked with companies from Sydney, Australia to Columbus, Ohio on creating engaging and entertaining meetings and events. Jon's motto is to Bore No More! and he hopes this book will help the readers to do just that.
Jon is also the author of Unlocking The Secrets, A DVD that teaches sleight of hand and sleight of mouth to business professionals and a contributing author of a soon to be released book Best of the Best. (scheduled release December 2007)
Possessing creative powers beyond those of mere mortals, Don "The Idea Guy" Snyder rescues those in need of innovative ideas through his consulting company The Idea Department, brainstorming sessions, articles and website . You can read Jon and Don's additional ideas and views on the books website.

Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: Chiswick Publishing; 1st edition (April 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979263700
• ISBN-13: 978-0979263705
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #520,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all meeting planners!, June 11, 2008

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Elisabeth Pizutelli - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boring Meetings Suck - Your real life guide to Effective meetings, presentations, Powerpoint and event planning (Paperback)

When you have sat through countless meetings that won't seem to want to end and powerpoint presentations that would even put your dog to sleep, this book is for you and the presenters that are responsible for your agony! It is amazing how simple some of the answers are to some of the most common and repeated meeting mistakes out there. Boring Meetings Suck should be a must-read for every planner of meetings, organizer of meetings, presenter of meetings, and everybody who has "meeting" in their work vocabulary. While this book will probably not win a Pulitzer, it is one of the most helpful, entertaining and eye-opening reads out there. Please, no more boring meetings - they do suck!! Thank you Jon Petz and Don Snyder!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Boring Meeting Suck + action = Satisfaction, March 30, 2008

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David Yorka "community action hero" (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boring Meetings Suck - Your real life guide to Effective meetings, presentations, Powerpoint and event planning (Paperback)

Every job, task, responsibility includes the mundane. Working while bored or routine boring work is a health hazard. Boring Meetings Suck is good medicine for the side effects related to meaningless, unproductive, irrelevant and time wasting meetings. Jon Petz and Don Snyder condense years of pain and progress into a clever business book. Boring Meetings Suck offers up twisted true tales in a cup of old bitter workplace coffee then before we can take a sip the cup is filled with tricks, tips and solutions --- ready to go. Want to laugh more often and increase quality of work satisfaction? Check out this red and white book with the clearly marked label.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Boring meetings suck, but this book doesn't, May 23, 2008

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D. Crone (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boring Meetings Suck - Your real life guide to Effective meetings, presentations, Powerpoint and event planning (Paperback)

I can think of at least a dozen executives and managers I've worked with over the years who need this book. Of course, they wouldn't bother reading it themselves. They'd surely assign that task to one of their staff and then call a meeting for a report on what they learned. The quotes scattered throughout the book keep it light and fun. The MSRDs are great. Nothing earth shattering here, but it's nice to have it all in one concise and easy to read book. This should be required reading for all project managers and anyone who holds regular meetings.