Casey Mc Daniel 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 & 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 & thought-provoking book this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business bad meetings & what he suggests is both simple & revolutionary Casey Mc Daniel the founder & CEO of Yip Software is in the midst of a problem he created but one he doesn t know how to solve & 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 & makes it applicable to the real world Death by Meeting is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste & frustration among their teams & create environments of engagement & passion