Meetings Suck: Turning One of The Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable
Hardcover – April 25, 2016
Description
Provocative yet caring, visionary yet results-oriented, Cameron is today's CEO whisperer. --Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes MagazineCameron has a unique ability to transform the broken into the brilliant. He does it with businesses and now he s doing it with meetings. --Simon Sinek, NYT Bestselling Author of Start With WhyCameron's framework for organizing and running meetings has allowed us to get twice as much done in half the time. --JJ Virgin, NYT Bestselling Author of The Virgin Diet 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.xa0 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.xa0 Hope you have everyone who works for you reading a copy next week. 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 inxa0just 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. Read more
Features & Highlights
- 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. In life, we always hear about people who've made huge decisions from their gut - without data.Today, I want you to make a decision not only from your gut, but also from some data. A decision that is only $12 per employee but will be priceless for your business.Right now, your gut is telling you something is wrong with your company's meetings. You KNOW everyone complains about meetings.People HATE going to them, they HATE running them, and they really have NO idea which meetings are truly necessary but they hold meetings simply because they think that is what they SHOULD do.Even some of the smartest CEOs in the world complain about meetings - Elon Musk publicly told employees at Tesla & SpaceX to walk out of meetings if they weren't being run properly.I sent Elon a message saying that wasn't going to fix anything - the key is to fix the root of the problem - NOT continue to ignore why meetings suck.A Meeting is - Any phone call, video call or occasion where 2 or more people meet to discuss or work-through office topics.Most employees on average spend 1-2 hours per day in meetings.And likely, none of those employees - front-line staff or leaders - have had any training on how to attend meetings or participate in them, LET ALONE How to RUN THEM.Consider this...If the Average employee spends just 1 Hour per day in meetings - that's 1/8th of their time.If the Average employee earns $50,000 per year.And they're spending 1/8th of their time in meetings, that means you're paying
- $6,250 dollars per year for just ONE employee to
- attend meetings.The reality is, employees spend 1/8th of their time - and 1/8th of your company's payroll - doing something they have literally NO idea how to do.The Reality is...95% of employees are booking & leading meetings - and they have NEVER been trained on how to run them.95% of employees have had NO training on how to show up and participate in the meetings they attend daily.And 95% of employees and companies have no idea what meetings are even necessary to hold.Meetings CAN be hugely effective - IF you know how to run themMeetings don't SUCK, we just SUCK at running meetings. Investing $15 per employee - to help ensure the $50,000 a year you spend on them is an obvious and easy choice.This could be the most impactful $15 you'll ever spend and will save the company's money, time and resources instantly.Buying a copy of Meetings Suck for 100% of your employees and having them read it this month will have huge impact on your company's success.
