Hold Successful Meetings

Jan 11, 2025 1:56 AM

Author:Caterina Kostoula

Meetings allow us to bring people together to inspire each other, solve problems and make a difference.

Yet, we all spend too much time in dull, frustrating meetings where little is achieved and even less is followed up on afterwards. In Hold Successful Meetings, executive coach and former Google leader Caterina Kostoula will change all this. Her unique framework will:

- Equip you to hold fewer, more purposeful meetings

- Create a creative and inclusive environment

- Leave participants inspired and ready to take action

Whether virtual or in-person, people will leave your meetings inspired by the value you created together and ready to make an impact.

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A tightly written prescription for smart thinking... A bold call to reinject pluralism and progressive human values into a decision-making process dominated by algorithms or gut instinct

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—— Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, Salesforce

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—— Kirkus Reviews

Humans today live a much easier, more comfortable, and more pleasant existence than ever before, but we also face our greatest existential challenges as a species, and in order to survive we will need not only cooperation, but a new and diverse set of cognitive frames ... [this book] teaches us how to better frame things for ourselves as individuals

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