Are meetings taking over your life? You're not alone. Meet Iris, a sales director so overwhelmed by meetings that she feels like a hamster on a wheel in fact, she's turned into one. Just in time, she meets a coach a leading meeting efficiency expert with a simple system that helps her regain her sanity and humanity. The coach's secret is a laser-like focus on the five biggest meeting pain points: Meeting overload: Professionals waste twenty-four days a year in useless meetings; Missing success ingredients: ninety percent of all professionals attend meetings that lack a clearly stated objective and agenda; Virtual-meeting chaos: Disinterested participants + endless technical glitches = huge amounts of wasted time; Agenda adrift: Goals are missed when meetings veer off course; and, Action distraction: Incomplete action items result in delayed projects and missed deadlines. The coach demonstrates that these five challenges are damaging Iris' career and costing the world over a trillion dollars each year. He provides practical new solutions that rapidly transform Iris from victim to victor.
