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

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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!

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.

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.

This author goes to great lengths to put all available information on dealing with the corprorate meeting room scene in one easy to read volume. I found this book to be full of entertaining and engaging ideas to use immediatley when conducting a meeting with my colleagues without seeming boring or redundant. GREAT resource for any business leader!!!!

I had to admit the title is right on the money. I wasn't sure what to expect, but was so pleasantly surprised. There were many pages where I had to laugh out loud because they were dead on accurate of our office culture and our god awful meeting environment. Also really like that it gave me ideas on things I can do if it's not a meeting I am running. The MSRD's were great - some of a bit out there but comical, but many great ideas for todays world. (The chapters on PowerPoint were awesome!) I would highly recommend if you want an easy read that gives solid ideas and you want to be thoroughly entertained along the way.

Do it anonymously if you have to, but get him/her this book! Back in a past life I worked in big companies that seemed to love having boring meetings. I only wish I had been able to have this book back then. Read this book if you want to bring some life to your workplace. Your employees will thank you for it.

These guys are pretty straight shooters when talking about meetings. They're about pointing out the 'thinking as usual' then giving you perspective - the perspective of the attendees vs the organizers vs the 'corporation'. They offer solid ideas to make meetings engaging! Ignore their insights at your peril.

I read this book in 2 sittings. Very easy to follow but still contained a lot of important information. I work for one of the largest companies in the world, but I think it would apply to any company, large or small. I like the way you can easily find a chapter that pertains to what you need. It was smart, humorous, and to the point. I may give an anonymous copy to some bosses I know. Hopefully there will be a volume 2 someday!