Research Catalog

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Description

1. 190 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "Why do some people have the knack of persuading committees to agree with them while others mumble, bumble, stumble, and then fumble their chances? Are there secrets of meeting manipulation? During recent years social psychologists have carried out profound new research into how people behave in meetings, research you may not have had time to study. (You've probably been too busy going to meetings.) Meetings, Meetings reveals, for the first time ever, the psychologists' discoveries, the tricks and techniques, the ploys and stratagems with which you can maneuver meetings to your advantage. It covers every significant aspect of meeting behavior, from body language to brainstorming sessions, from committee chairmanship to tough negotiation. The book includes games to play in meetings to alleviate your boredom and a chapter that defines the kinds of people who incessantly attend meetings. Meetings, Meetings will show you how to analyze the actions of these other meeting-goers and how to develop for yourself the Seven Deadly Skills: aggression, conciliation, enthusiasm, interrogation, patience, sulks, and withdrawal. Finally, Meetings, Meetings will provide you with Twenty-one Key Stratagems for Success. Stratagems like Hassle the Chairman, It's My Fault, It's Your Fault, and Fight the Wrong Fight. About fifty million meetings are held throughout the world every day. Lighthearted, yet deadly serious, Meetings, Meetings proves that if you can't escape them you can manipulate them--and have a little fun while you're at it."--from the publisher.

Subject

1. Meetings > Handbooks, manuals, etc
2. Congresses and conventions > Handbooks, manuals, etc
3. Committees > Handbooks, manuals, etc
4. Communication
5. Misinformation
6. Communication
7. communication (function)
8. communication functions
9. Committees
10. Congresses and conventions
11. Meetings

Genre/Form

1. Handbook
2. manuals (instructional materials)
3. handbooks.
4. Handbooks and manuals
5. Handbooks and manuals.
6. Guides et manuels.

Contents

1. 1. Agenda -- 2. Briefing -- 3. Terms of reference -- 4. Reconnaissance -- 5. The seven deadly skills -- 6. The sounds of silence -- 7. In the chair -- 8. The law -- 9. Games meeting-people play -- 10. Brainstorming sessions -- 11. Everything's negotiable -- 12. Twenty-one key stratagems -- 13. Any other business -- Bibliography.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 186-190.