Foreword

What's that loud sucking sound?

Oh … it's your MEETING.

You'd think you'd know by now.

Meetings suck.

And BORING meetings?

They suck the most.

When Jon Petz and I began collaborating on the original version of this book in 2006, we decided to poke fun at some of the worst meetings we'd ever had the mis-fortune to attend. We offered humorous suggestions on how to improve a bad situation—all the boring meetings you have to facilitate and attend.

But you weren't listening.

You went right on having your boring meetings, inviting even more attendees and putting them into a coma with your pointless PowerPoint slides.

What choice did Jon have?

You've forced him to create a bigger, badder, louder alarm clock to wake you up to all the time, energy, creativity, and money you're wasting by meeting in boring and banal ways.