Meetings Suck by Cameron Herold Summary
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Transform your dreaded meetings into powerful productivity engines. Cameron Herold's game-changing guide saves companies $25,000 annually by revolutionizing corporate culture. Featuring innovative role assignments that develop leadership skills, this business essential challenges you: how much is your meeting time actually worth?
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The $37 Billion Problem Hiding in Your Calendar
Your calendar is bleeding money. Between the half-hearted status updates, the meandering brainstorms, and the "this could have been an email" gatherings, American businesses alone lose $37 billion annually to unproductive meetings. Yet here's the paradox: we need meetings more than ever. Despite our collective groaning when another invite lands in our inbox, face-to-face collaboration builds something email never can-trust, nuance, and the kind of creative friction that sparks innovation. The problem isn't meetings themselves. It's that we've never been taught how to run them. We train employees for years in technical skills, then throw them into conference rooms without a playbook and wonder why nothing gets done. What if the solution isn't fewer meetings, but better ones?
The Hidden Language of Face-to-Face Connection
The Personality Puzzle: Why Some Voices Drown Out Others
The Five Pillars: Building Meetings That Actually Work
The Meeting Ecosystem: Creating Organizational Rhythm
Reclaiming Your Calendar, Reclaiming Your Culture
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"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
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"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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