Join us and participate in the PMI Mid-Missouri Chapter Book Club.

The PMI Mid Missouri Book Club is a forum for talking about books that touch on the widely varied challenges of project and program management. The book club meetings will be small group discussions limited to 20 participants to facilitate interaction and exchanging ideas. In order to participate you need to register for the event, read the book before the meeting and bring a copy of the book to the meeting.

Come to the Book Club with an open mind and prepare to have your understanding adjusted as you hear about the book through the voices of your professional peers. Dan Crouch, PMI Mid Missouri Book Club Coordinator will be facilitating the meeting. The following book has been selected for this club meeting.

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

By Patrick Lencioni

• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (March 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787968056
• ISBN-13: 978-0787968052
• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (March 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470580437
• ISBN-13: 978-0470580431
• File Size: 921 KB
• Print Length: 256 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0787968056
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (July 23, 2007)
• Publication Date: July 23, 2007
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008L03W7O

Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life. In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin.  Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he had built from scratch.

“How could my life have unraveled so quickly?” he wondered.

In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings.  And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary.

Casey McDaniel, the founder and CEO of Yip Software, is in the midst of a problem he created, but one he doesn’t know how to solve.  And he doesn’t know where or who to turn to for advice.  His staff can’t help him; they’re as dumbfounded as he is by their tortuous meetings.

Then an unlikely advisor, Will Peterson, enters Casey’s world.  When he proposes an unconventional, even radical, approach to solving the meeting problem, Casey is just desperate enough to listen.

As in his other books, Lencioni provides a framework for his groundbreaking model, and makes it applicable to the real world.  Death by Meeting is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams, and create environments of engagement and passion.

PDU Reporting for reading the selection

We estimate this book to take 4 hours to read. Individual reading time may vary. When you have finished the book you must self-report to claim the PDUs.

We have identified that this book qualifies to be reported as Talent Triangle Category - Leadership