A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work Even Better: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions,
Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas,
controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities.
Through the Meeting Masters Research Project at the University of Michigan, author John E. Tropman observed and
interviewed the nation's most successful meeting experts to find out how to make meetings both stimulating and
productive. Based on his findings, Tropman formulated seven principles and fourteen commandments for implementing
dynamic meetings.
This second edition has been extensively revised and expanded to include
Family meetings and family group decision making
Problems and solutions for board of directors meetings
Community and civic meetings
Volunteers and meetings
Leadership in community decision making
Making Meetings Work Even Better: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition provides simple, easily
applied best practices for supervising or instigating meetings with decision accomplishment outcomes. Author John
E. Tropman reveals goal oriented procedures that keep proposals moving towards quality group decision making and
assure other participants look forward to attending your meetings.
Written with humor and a deep understanding of the realities of business and political life, Making Meetings Work
Even Better: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition is an extraordinary resource for anyone who
leads, facilitates, or attends meetings.