Economist John Kenneth Galbraith has called meetings indispensable if you don't want to do anything. Most of us probably agree. Too many meetings are burdensome, boring and enervating. They consume countless hours of staff and leadership time, often with little to show for it. Yet they are ubiquitous in organizations of all kinds, arguably because there is no better means of collaborative communication. The challenge, then, is to make them as efficient and productive as possible, and thousands of articles, books, motivational sessions and YouTube videos have been created to that end. More are produced every day. One of the latest is this little manual by Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, a library consultant, speaker and trainer, and author of several previous books published by the American Library Association.
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