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The Meeting Book
How the Best Companies Meet Better
“The Meeting Book is a rare blend of storytelling and actionable wisdom, showing how companies like Amazon, Airbnb, Intuit, and LinkedIn transformed meetings from dreaded time-sinks into engines of trust, strategy, innovation, and performance.” —Youngme Moon, Harvard Business School Professor “For managers, nothing is more vital for success than building a strong and effective meeting culture, and Paul English shows through engaging narratives and takeaways how it’s done. What’s more, this book proves that meetings can be full of purpose and even, dare we say, fun.” —Dave Dodson, Stanford Business School, Author of The Manager’s Handbook “The Meeting Book mixes vivid stores and practical tools to turn mindless, mundane meetings into magic. Highly recommended if you are looking for ways to make innovation flourish.” —Scott D. Anthony, Clinical Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and author of Epic Disruptions “Entrepreneurs who create successful companies are rare, yet Paul English has done it again and again. What Paul reveals in The Meeting Book is that building a strong meeting culture can make all the difference. Anyone who spends hours in meetings needs to read this book.” —Bill Aulet, Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship & Managing Director, The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Paul M. English (Author)
9781394391790, Wiley
Hardback, published 11 May 2026
240 pages
23.1 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.408 kg
“How could you not buy this book?” We've all experienced them. Meetings with no clear agenda, too many attendees with no clear role, unprepared presenters, chaotic social dynamics, and no resulting decisions. These kinds of meetings are a millstone around your company's neck. In The Meeting Book, serial entrepreneur and Kayak.com co-founder Paul M. English shares a bold new vision for transforming meetings from timewasters into engines of innovation. Drawing from decades of experience building and scaling startups, the book combines engaging, first-person stories and hands-on best practices you can apply to your meetings immediately. You'll learn how companies like Amazon, Intuit, and OpenTable revolutionized the way they run meetings. You'll also discover how to set an agenda that works, inspire your team members, accommodate cultural differences in international settings, and take and analyze informative notes. The book reveals:
—Forbes
Proven lessons to make meetings worth it from Kayak.com co-founder Paul M. English
The Meeting Book is a must-read practical guide for leaders who want to build better teams—one meeting at a time. It shows you how to present information-rich roadmaps, set lofty and realistic goals, make high-stakes decisions, energize people, and grow your company. You'll never look at meetings in the same way again.
Introduction ix PART I Stories 1 PART II Principles 101 Conclusion: Takeaways That Inspired Supercal 195
Chapter 1 How Intuit Became a Master of Meetings 3
Chapter 2 How Amazon Revolutionized Presentations 19
Chapter 3 How Constant Contact and OpenTable Confronted Gender Bias 37
Chapter 4 How Kayak Became Maniacal About Meetings 49
Chapter 5 How Airbnb Created a New Kind of Company 65
Chapter 6 How LinkedIn Was Built on Better Meetings 85
Chapter 7 Transform Scheduling 103
Chapter 8 Energize Your Teams 117
Chapter 9 Meeting Across Cultures 137
Chapter 10 Analyzing Meetings to Make Them Better 151
Chapter 11 Decision Points and Action Steps 167
Chapter 12 Scaling Meeting Culture 181
Source Notes 203
Acknowledgments 211
About the Author 213
Index 215
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
