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I have recently borrowed a book from a colleague: “Death by meeting” from Patrick Lencioni. He is consultant in his own firm: the table group.

This book is starting by a fable about a company that has really uninteresting meetings. A new employee will help the CEO to understand and enhance these meetings.

Everything is around conflicts and having a meeting for each purpose.

The book, that is quick and easy to read, demonstrates that you need four meetings:

• Daily check-in: a 5 minutes daily meeting to share daily schedules and activities.
• Weekly tactical: a 1 hour weekly meeting to review weekly activities and metrics and resolve tactical obstacles and issues.
• Monthly strategic: a 2-4 hours monthly meeting to discuss, analyse, brainstorm and decide up on critical issues affecting long term success.
• Quarterly off-site review: a 1-2 days quarterly meeting to review strategy, competitive landscape, team development.

Any manager could at least implement weekly tactical and monthly strategic meetings. My colleague has started them and I will do the same next year. I am waiting for a first monthly strategic meeting to check how people in the team will react to positive conflicts.

The One Minute Manager is a great book. It explains three mains topics:

• One Minute goals
• One Minute praisings
• One Minute reprimands

These three simple topics will help you to better manage your team (if you have one). But of course, you will have to be transparent and honest with them.

The book is short and easy to read. So, if you have some time spend, it has a good return on investment

Today, our companies are changing rapidly and are taking sharp turns.

Are we able to move as fast as them? 

We should be prepared to that.

This small and “quick to read” book will help you to think about it. You will look at any change in the organization or in the company objectives and you will move before the big bang.

The book contains a fable with four different stereotypes of people. Which one are you?