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We all know that meetings suck, right?

You hear it all the time. It's the one thing that almost everyone in business can agree on.

Except it's not actually true. Meetings don't suck—we suck at running meetings. When done right, meetings not only work, they make people and companies better.

In Meetings Suck, world renowned business expert and growth guru Cameron Herold teaches you how to use focused, time effective meetings to help you and your company soar.

This book shows you immediately actionable, step-by-step systems that ensure that you and everyone in your organization improves your meetings, right away.

In the process, you'll turn meetings that suck into meetings that work.

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Cameron Herold is known around the world as THE CEO WHISPERER. He is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth. Cameron's built a dynamic consultancy: his clients have included a "Big 4" wireless carrier and a monarchy. What do his clients say they like most about him? He isn't a theory guy--they like that Cameron speaks only from experience. He earned his reputation as the CEO Whisperer by guiding his clients to double their profit and double their revenue in just three years or less.

Cameron was an entrepreneur from day 1. At age 21, he had 14 employees. By 35, he'd help build his first TWO $100 MILLION DOLLAR companies. By the age of 42, Cameron engineered 1-800-GOT-JUNK?'s spectacular growth from $2 Million to $106 Million in revenue and 3100 employees--and he did that in just six years.

His companies landed over 5,200 media placements in that same six years, including coverage on Oprah. Not only does Cameron know how to grow businesses, but his delivery from the stage is second to none.
The current publisher of Forbes magazine, Rich Karlgaard, stated "Cameron Herold is THE BEST SPEAKER I've ever heard...he hits grand slams.

When Cameron steps off the stage, he doesn't stop teaching. He is the author of the global best-selling business book DOUBLE DOUBLE, in its 7th printing and in multiple translations around the world.

Cameron is a top-rated international speaker and has been paid to speak in 26 countries. He is also the top-rated lecturer at EO/MIT's Entrepreneurial Masters Program and a powerful and effective speaker at Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer leadership events around the world.

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After 9 years of coaching Entrepreneurs & CEOs globally, I consistently heard that "meetings suck" only to find out after coaching them a bit, that they had never had any training on running awesome meetings for themselves or their employees. No wonder meetings sucked for them, they sucked at running them.

It was this pain that brought about this book for you and all your employees. Hope you have everyone who works for you reading a copy next week. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Alexander Y.

We order Meetings Suck a box at a time and you should too.

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2017

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Over the last 6 month my company integrated the learning from this book into every aspect of our day-to-day operations. We ordered a hardcopy of this book for every employee. This book is included in welcome packet for all of our new employees. We designed a poster for every conference room in the office that has key principles from the book. We run regular trainings on how to run effective meetings. And we are seeing incredible results. We've effectively eliminated and streamlined a lot of our ongoing meetings and now spend significantly less time per meeting. Our customer and employee satisfaction is at all time highest. As the founder of the company one of the feedback I've gotten is that the team feels that we are doing everything we can to protect their time, to take care of them in the professional area that people often hate the most and make them feel more empowered and better prepared to deliver more value to our clients in shorter meetings, hence scaling the impact of this book outside of our organization. We are now sending it out to all of our new clients as a part of our welcome packet. It is not an exaggeration to say that this has been one of the most influential books for the entire organization

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Actionable Advice and Valuable Perspective

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2018

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I bought this book because I hate meetings. I mean, I really, *really* hate meetings. I spend most of them fantasizing about all of the things I could have gotten done if not for meetings. It got to be so bad that I searched "books about meetings" one day because I needed some tool to instruct what successful meetings look like, and what can be done to make things more tolerable.

Overall, I think Herold does a nice job. The biggest value of this book is that, if your work experiences are anything like mine, you can't convince much of anyone that the way they're doing things is wrong unless you find a professional development book that reinforces your opinion. At the very least, I've been able to pass this book to others in my company so that, collectively, we can identify and diagnose our problems and start to address them, even in small ways. Herold breaks down some actionable steps to make meetings more effective, and he also provides a good framework for the conditions that make a successful meeting. There are things that need to be done in the meeting itself, but more than anything we need to reframe the way we perceive meetings: what they're meant to accomplish, what they need to be effective, and why most meetings aren't worth our time. He does so concisely (it's a very, very slim book) and does a solid job not belaboring the point.

A few small caveats: the beginning is a little poorly edited and has a handful of typos. The end goes over the different types of meetings, but if you aren't a manager and don't participate in things like board meetings and quarterly planning meetings, there isn't a whole lot of value there. There's also a fair amount of seemingly unavoidable buzz words and a few of the same mistakes that management often makes in communication (we're still talking about business largely in sports analogies, for example). However, given the brevity of the book and the importance of its point, its shortcomings aren't significant enough to make it not worth your time. If you're at your wits end with meetings, you'll find some encouragement (and a list of action items) here.

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Jeff

Not what I was expecting

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2018

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As a manager I was hoping for fresh ideas and examples of how to get people more engaged and improve meeting outcomes. Instead, I received a refresher course on what a meeting is, different types of meetings you can hold, and the importance of an agenda. Pretty basic stuff, and not worth the read unless you are a brand new supervisor or brand new to holding your own meetings. Even then, if you’ve been in your fair share of meetings most of this seemed like commen sense.

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Michael Williams

This book will be useful to not just managers and leaders

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016

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This book will be useful to not just managers and leaders, but anyone on any team who wants to achieve success.

He constructed the book really well:

1. The breezy pace made it quick to read.

2. The functional structure made it easy to turn the knowledge into action.

For someone looking to create fast and large results, it's the perfect book.

Here are a few improvements we made in the last ~2 weeks:

1. We saw a massive and immediate boost in efficiency. Simply from following his templates and suggestions for how to organize and run a meeting. This is one of those "I can't believe we weren't doing this before" breakthroughs.

It also triggered several ideas that should improve our biz dev meetings.

2. Started training staff on a few of Cameron's major strategies. And I've assigned ownership of each critical item to a staff member (whereas before this stuff was on my plate).

Aside from the obvious benefits, it's also making clear to me who is ready to take on additional leadership or management responsibility... and who may need more training/support.

3. Meetings are faster, yet more productive than before. For example, one meeting that was 45min is now regularly 25min or less.

4. If you're a "front line" or junior employee, this book will also show you how to use meetings to get noticed and advance your career (regardless of your personality traits).

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akira chan

What you "don't know you don't know" about meetings

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2016

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Where the hell do meetings fit within the modern workworld of virtual teams, company culture building, and non-corporate agendas? If you're a small startup founder like myself, your team might look and act like the goonies - and creating a meeting environment that plays to all of the individual personality types and still moves the mission forward is no easy task.
The steps and insights Cameron Herold provides are so practical and profound I found myself smacking my forehead a few times, and have already copied and pasted multiple sections into evernote for future, repeated use. I've completely turned around my jaded opinions on meetings.
Looking forward to more from Cameron's treasure chest of wisdom.

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Bill L

What is says on the tin

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2017

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Excellent short book on how to turn potential time wasting activities into useful constructive time. Recommended for multiple levels from top to bottom.

J M White

Meeting don’t have to suck!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2019

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Great book about how to run a meeting of any kind in your organisation. Very practical and an easy read.

Gareth Davies

A good quick read, meeting don't suck - you suck at meetings.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2016

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Some great insights here into running meetings in an effective manner, its a quick read which gives you some important cadences to set in your business. Worth a read if you are finding meetings a waste of time and unproductive.

J. Haddick

Effektive Meetings halten: Kompakt und sehr praxisnah

Reviewed in Germany on March 30, 2017

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Jeder hat sie, aber keiner mag sie so richtig - Meetings. Laut Cameron Herold nehmen sie bei den meisten Berufstätigen ca. 20% ihrer Arbeitszeit in Anspruch. Dieses Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, die Effektivität dieser 20% Arbeitszeit dramatisch zu steigern.

Herold spricht Dinge an, die eigentlich jedem von uns bewusst sind, an die man aber immer wieder erinnert werden muss: (1) die Notwendigkeit einer Agenda und was sie enthalten sollte, (2) die Notwendigkeit gut zu durchdenken, welche Personen bei einem Meeting wirklich dabei sein sollten, (3) die Notwendigkeit, pünktlich zu beginnen und zu enden… Er spricht aber auch Bereiche an, über die man sich selten Gedanken macht. Drei Punkte, die ich sehr hilfreich fand: (1) Herold gibt Tipps, wie man verschiedene Persönlichkeitstypen ins Gespräch einbinden kann - auch und gerade diejenigen, die sonst eher still dabei sitzen. (2) Es gibt verschiedene Stile von Meetings (Information Sharing, Creative Discussion, Concensus Decision). Man sollte sich selbst bewusst sein, was für eine Art von Meeting man plant und man sollte es auch den Teilnehmern klar kommunizieren, sonst gibt es schnell Missverständnisse und Frust entsteht. (3) Herold gibt eine Auflistung und Erklärung der verschiedenen Rollen, die bei einem Meeting klar zugewiesen sein sollten (The Moderator, The Parking Lot, The Time Keeper, Participants, The Closer). Ich habe hier einiges gelernt und hoffe es auch anwenden zu können.

Der letzte Teil des Buches ist unterschiedlichen Typen von Meetings gewidmet. Dieser Teil, der ca. 1/3 des Buches einnimmt, war für mich weniger hilfreich. Die Zielgruppe sind hier Manager oder Teamleiter in der Wirtschaft und vieles zielt auf Effektivität zur Gewinnmaximierung ab. Da ich nicht in der Wirtschaft arbeite, sondern hauptsächlich mit nebenberuflichen ehrenamtlichen, war das für mich nicht so relevant. Herold beschreibt die Typen aber sehr kompakt und konkret, was für Manager oder Teamleiter sicher sehr hilfreich ist und ein paar Einsichten konnte ich hier doch auch gewinnen.

Insgesamt ein sehr hilfreiches Buch. Wer Verantwortung für Mitarbeiter trägt, kann hiervon nur profitieren. Die große Stärke des Buches ist die, dass es Herold gelingt sehr praktisch und sehr kompakt zu schreiben. Ich habe mir vorgenommen besonders den mittleren Teil (How to Run a Successful Meeting) in regelmäßigen Abständen immer mal wieder zu lesen.

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Nik

Easy Read, with great Tools to use everyday.

Reviewed in Canada on May 9, 2016

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I read Cameron's first book, and it has become a bible for business in my world. This book is a quick read with lots of great tools and takeaways. I sent the highlights to all of my managers. And I now make sure I have an agenda from anyone who is requesting a meeting with me. Great book for anyone who is hosting meetings or just participating in them. Great tools to keep sales calls on point as well. Great job Cameron !! Again :)

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