Will there be Donuts?

One of the Sunday Times Top-10 Best Summer Reads Today, the very word meeting conjures up images of time wasted in badly lit, airless offices.Hour after hour. Day after day. David Pearl can change that and in this book he shows how you can take back control of your working life. Voted one of the Sunday Times Top-10 Best Summer Reads of 2013 Will There Be Donuts? is about a big mistake that almost all companies are going to make this year. And the next. And the one after that. Well call it nearly meeting. It happens the length and breadth of the business world, from boardroom to shop floor. Will There Be Donuts? is business expert David Pearls first book and he draws on his 2 decades of consulting with some of the biggest companies in the world to re-educate the reader on how to hold meetings and, crucially, how to make them great. At every level of an organisation, not just the very top. if your meetings are ineffective then its likely that your business is too. Will There Be Donuts? will reinvigorate you as a person and as an employer/employee. Consider the following: You are in a role which requires you to attend three hours of meetings a day. Lets say youd score those meetings 70% effective. Lets also imagine there are 100 people like you in the company and that your average wage is 60k. You personally just wasted 5 whole weeks in meeting time this year. Your company lost a combined 2500 days of productivity; thats the equivalent of 11 person-years costing the company 675,000. Whats more, if you were to continue at this rate for a conventional career, youd be burning a total of 9 years, 6 months and 3 days of your working life. All for the sake of some ineffective meetings. Will There Be Donuts? will help you reclaim your working life.