By Charlie Gilkey

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We’ve all sat through a bad meeting. If we’re honest, we’ve all probably led a bad meeting, too.

Al Pittampalli’s new book, Read This Before Our Next Meeting, is a great antidote to the bad meetings. In this video conversation, Al and I talk about:

What counts as a meeting – and what doesn’t How meetings are related to decisiveness The odd reality that it’s harder to get agreement in groups than it is to get disagreements Why this book is for solos and small teams, even if Al wasn’t writing it for us.

Al’s a new contributor here at PF and also a great guy in general. I love the way his mind works.

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