Your Best Meeting Ever

7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done

Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures, designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and maintain the hierarchy intact. In today's digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn't 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, you'll turn your meetings into well-designed products that actually drive work forward and serve your most important users - the people in your organization. *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 matter - and 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 than 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 you're a leader or an individual contributor, this powerful book will nudge you to be audacious - to challenge the existing norms and embrace new paradigms - so you'll never dread another meeting again.