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Death by Meeting

A Leadership Fable about Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

Bad meetings are not boring by accident, and they are fixable.

by Patrick Lencioni

Through a business fable, Lencioni diagnoses why most meetings are tedious and ineffective and proposes a cure. He argues that meetings lack drama and contextual structure, and prescribes four distinct meeting types: the daily check-in, the weekly tactical, the monthly strategic, and the quarterly off-site. The goal is to make meetings focused, productive, and even engaging.

Founders spend a huge share of their week in meetings, and unstructured ones quietly drain team momentum. This book offers a practical meeting architecture that keeps decisions sharp and avoids cramming every topic into one mushy weekly call.

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