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Warning: This read may save you countless hours. As a professional meeting hacker, Rebecca Hinds offers a wealth of knowledge for eliminating pointless gatherings and making the most of our time. Her book should be required reading for everyone who runs meetings.

Your Best Meeting Ever is the best book ever on the causes of crummy meetings and what we can each do to create great ones. This gem is relentlessly useful, weaves in compelling studies and instructive stories throughout, and Rebecca Hinds’ delightful writing makes it the rare “business book” that is a joy to read.” I am especially smitten with her ideas about how to “become a meeting minimalist” and applying “user centric-design,” with proven solutions that range from stifling blabber-mouths, to including skills at running meetings when selecting leaders, to using AI to reduce meeting drudgery and to make better decisions.

A low point in my career was realizing that everyone who was in my staff meeting felt it was a waste of time, and everyone who was not there felt sad and bad and left out. If only I'd read Hinds's book! Full of practical tips, it will ensure your meetings help you get sh*t done and build better relationships.

Everyone wanted better meetings, but no one seemed to know how—until now. Rebecca Hinds not only diagnoses the root causes of bad meetings, but offers a brilliant core insight (that we should design great meetings like we design great products) and practical tools based on both academic research and what’s worked at real companies. Grab a copy of this book before your next week of meetings begins!

This delightful new book is an invaluable guide to making Your Best Meeting Ever a reality.  Author Rebecca Hinds tackles the essential challenge of how teams can move from playing it safe to speaking up, thinking together, and experimenting. A must read for anyone serious about creating organizations that team up and learn, instead of retreating from honesty, effort, and risk.  

This book is fantastic! It is well-grounded, compelling, and offers such a fresh take on the topic of meetings. Although it is sometimes cliché to call something a 'must-read', this book is truly a must-read.

Too many meetings steal our time, energy, and focus. Your Best Meeting Ever shows you how to cut the clutter, redesign your calendar, and transform the meetings that remain into powerful tools for collaboration and results. With clear principles and science-backed tactics, this book will help you turn meetings from a mindless drain into a strategic advantage.

Do you celebrate when a meeting gets canceled from your calendar? Most people dislike meetings because they're unproductive and take too much time. Yet collaborating, ideating, and deciding are critical for success in almost all we do. What if you could organize and facilitate great meetings? Your Best Meeting Ever provides a highly accessible and actionable toolkit and guidance necessary to turn chaotic conversations into clear, concise collaborations. Hinds' book is an essential resource for any leader who wants to stop wasting time and start making meetings matter.

For anyone who is positively bedeviled with meetings, this book is a lifeline.