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From Rebecca Hinds, PhDorganizational expert who has helped Fortune 500 companies fix their fractured collaborationcomes a bold, battle-tested blueprint for tackling the workplaces biggest time-wasters: meetings.
Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like proceduresdesigned to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In todays digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isnt just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organizations.
Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration. The secret? Treat them like products. Using seven product design principles, youll turn your meetings into well-designed products that actually drive work forward and serve your most important usersthe people in your organization. Youll learn:
Why every organization needs a Meeting Doomsday to reset collaboration, and how to strategically orchestrate one at your company.
How to fix your communication system so meetings are a last resort, not a knee-jerk default.
Which meeting metrics matterand which do more harm than good.
How to inject moments of delight into your meetings so people genuinely want to show up.
When to integrate technology into your meetings so you enhance collaboration, rather detract from it.
More than just a practical guide, Your Best Meeting Ever is a rallying call to rethink how we collaborate in the modern workplace. Whether youre a leader or an individual contributor, this powerful book will nudge you to be audaciousto challenge the existing norms and embrace new paradigmsso youll never dread another meeting again.
Author: Rebecca Hinds
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Element / Simon Acumen
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781668067482
Language: English
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