Read This Before Our Next Meeting

Oct 7, 2024 10:25 AM

Author:Al Pittampalli

Read This Before Our Next Meeting is Al Pittampalli's accessible guide on making meetings more effective, efficient, and worthy of attending

The average office worker spends eleven hours in meetings every week. Yet all that time sitting around a conference table hasn't made us more productive. If anything, meetings have made work worse.

Traditional meetings reduce efficiency, kill urgency, and breed compromise and complacency. But there is a solution, a way to have fewer, shorter, more purposeful meetings: Al Pittampalli's Modern Meeting Standard. By following its eight simple but radical principles you may never have to attend a useless meeting again.

'I dutifully avoid meetings whenever possible, which is pretty much always. If I were to go to meetings, though, I'd want Al to run them.'

Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup and The Art of Non-Conformity

Reviews

#GIRLBOSS is more than a book and Sophia Amoruso is more than a purveyor of (fine and fly) garments. #GIRLBOSS is a movement - a philosophy for making your work life as fun, fresh and raunchy as your personal adventures. Sophia encourages us to own the qualities we've previously been ashamed of (bossiness, crudeness, petty thievery) in order to become the masters of our own destiny, financially independent and radically ourselves. I'm so in

—— Lena Dunham

The Cinderella of tech

—— New York Times

Fashion's new phenom

—— Forbes

Starkly brilliant

—— Huffington Post

A millennial alternative to Lean In

—— The Cut , New York Magazine

The book you need in your life ... a simultaneously funny, warm, inspiring and straight-talking guide on how to go about getting shit done

—— Marie Claire

A compellingly motivational read

—— The Telegraph

Deeply personal and filled with brazen, hilarious moments and cunning and frank observations, don't be surprised if you laugh out loud

—— SheerLuxe

Amoruso's voice is accessible and charmingly self-deprecating without losing the effortless cool that characterizes her clothes...Being anti-establishment is teh old cool. The new cool is playing by your own rules and still winning by their standards

—— New York Times Book Review

Part memoir, part management guide and part girl-power manifesto. A sort of Lean In for misfits, it offers young women a candid guide to starting a business and going after what they want

—— Washington Post

A power manifesto for strong, ambitious young women ... Amoruso teaches the innovative and entrepreneurial among us to play to our strengths, learn from our mistakes, and know when to break a few of the traditional rules

—— Vanity Fair

If you read one book with a hashtag for a title this year, make it #GIRLBOSS

—— TechCrunch

It's easy to get the sense, reading Lean In, that Sandberg is writing for women who've already made it. #GIRLBOSS is for those who haven't, which means it is aimed at people who have nothing to lose, which makes it a much riskier and more enjoyable manifesto

—— New York Magazine

Filled with great advice for all millennial women ready to take over the world

—— Cosmopolitan

Filled with great advice for all millennial women ready to take over the world

—— Cosmopolitan

Offers empowering but unapologetic mantras about taking control of your life, making the choices you want to make and knowing which rules to stick to - and which to break ... #GIRLBOSS [is] giving Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In a run for its money

—— Grazia

Reveals the formula for modern pop.

—— Helen Brown , Daily Telegraph

An amazing story

—— David Hepworth , Week

· Lodge’s short stories are as witty and surprising as his novels.

—— Kate Saunders , The Times

He seems so perfectly suited to the form… [A] well-observed collection that one wishes was twice as long.

—— Carl Wilkinson , Financial Times

This is a superb analysis of modern pop music.

—— i

Seabrook has written an interesting book, smearing away some of the gloss and glamour from the music industry, to reveal details of its inner workings… An interesting book overall on a global industry that has as many secrets as glitterballs.

—— Paul Cheney , Nudge

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