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Meetings don't have to be painfully inefficient snoozefests--if you design them. Meeting Design will teach you the design principles and innovative approaches you'll need to transform meetings from boring to creative, from wasteful to productive. Meetings can and should be indispensable to your organization; Kevin Hoffman will show you how to design them for success.

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There''s meeting your maker, and then there's making your meeting. Kevin Hoffman dives deep, offering myriad ways to design good meetings. --Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University Want to run meetings that are both productive and fun? This book is for you! --Andy Budd, Owner and Director of Clearleft In Kevin Hoffman's hands, business meetings become a powerful tool of design. --Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman and A List Apart I would like Kevin Hoffman to design not only my meetings but also probably my entire life. --Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and coauthor, Content Strategy for the Web I kid you not: the last meeting I was in that Kevin facilitated, people teared up at the end because of how transformative our time together was. When's the last time you could say that about any of your meetings? -- Dan Mall, Founder and Director, SuperFriendly At last, a book that acknowledges meetings as a design problem. Read this. Learn it. Put it into practice. Then thank the author when your group work soars. --Sunni Brown, best-selling author and Chief Human Potentialist At last, a book that acknowledges meetings as a design problem. Read this. Learn it. Put it into practice. Then thank the author when your group work soars. --Sunni Brown, best-selling author and Chief Human Potentialist There''s meeting your maker, and then there's making your meeting. Kevin Hoffman dives deep, offering myriad ways to design good meetings. --Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University I kid you not: the last meeting I was in that Kevin facilitated, people teared up at the end because of how transformative our time together was. When's the last time you could say that about any of your meetings? -- Dan Mall, Founder and Director, SuperFriendly Want to run meetings that are both productive and fun? This book is for you! --Andy Budd, Owner and Director of Clearleft I would like Kevin Hoffman to design not only my meetings but also probably my entire life. --Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and coauthor, Content Strategy for the Web In Kevin Hoffman's hands, business meetings become a powerful tool of design. --Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman and A List Apart

Want to run meetings that are both productive and fun? This book is for you! --Andy Budd, Owner and Director of Clearleft There''s meeting your maker, and then there's making your meeting. Kevin Hoffman dives deep, offering myriad ways to design good meetings. --Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University In Kevin Hoffman's hands, business meetings become a powerful tool of design. --Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman and A List Apart I would like Kevin Hoffman to design not only my meetings but also probably my entire life. --Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and coauthor, Content Strategy for the Web I kid you not: the last meeting I was in that Kevin facilitated, people teared up at the end because of how transformative our time together was. When's the last time you could say that about any of your meetings? -- Dan Mall, Founder and Director, SuperFriendly At last, a book that acknowledges meetings as a design problem. Read this. Learn it. Put it into practice. Then thank the author when your group work soars. --Sunni Brown, best-selling author and Chief Human Potentialist

There''s meeting your maker, and then there's making your meeting. Kevin Hoffman dives deep, offering myriad ways to design good meetings. --Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University Want to run meetings that are both productive and fun? This book is for you! --Andy Budd, Owner and Director of Clearleft In Kevin Hoffman's hands, business meetings become a powerful tool of design. --Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman and A List Apart I would like Kevin Hoffman to design not only my meetings but also probably my entire life. --Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and coauthor, Content Strategy for the Web I kid you not: the last meeting I was in that Kevin facilitated, people teared up at the end because of how transformative our time together was. When's the last time you could say that about any of your meetings? -- Dan Mall, Founder and Director, SuperFriendly At last, a book that acknowledges meetings as a design problem. Read this. Learn it. Put it into practice. Then thank the author when your group work soars. --Sunni Brown, best-selling author and Chief Human Potentialist At last, a book that acknowledges meetings as a design problem. Read this. Learn it. Put it into practice. Then thank the author when your group work soars. --Sunni Brown, best-selling author and Chief Human Potentialist There''s meeting your maker, and then there's making your meeting. Kevin Hoffman dives deep, offering myriad ways to design good meetings. --Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University I kid you not: the last meeting I was in that Kevin facilitated, people teared up at the end because of how transformative our time together was. When's the last time you could say that about any of your meetings? -- Dan Mall, Founder and Director, SuperFriendly Want to run meetings that are both productive and fun? This book is for you! --Andy Budd, Owner and Director of Clearleft I would like Kevin Hoffman to design not only my meetings but also probably my entire life. --Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and coauthor, Content Strategy for the Web In Kevin Hoffman's hands, business meetings become a powerful tool of design. --Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman and A List Apart

At last, a book that acknowledges meetings as a design problem. Read this. Learn it. Put it into practice. Then thank the author when your group work soars. --Sunni Brown, best-selling author and Chief Human Potentialist There''s meeting your maker, and then there's making your meeting. Kevin Hoffman dives deep, offering myriad ways to design good meetings. --Molly Wright Steenson, Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University I kid you not: the last meeting I was in that Kevin facilitated, people teared up at the end because of how transformative our time together was. When's the last time you could say that about any of your meetings? -- Dan Mall, Founder and Director, SuperFriendly Want to run meetings that are both productive and fun? This book is for you! --Andy Budd, Owner and Director of Clearleft I would like Kevin Hoffman to design not only my meetings but also probably my entire life. --Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and coauthor, Content Strategy for the Web In Kevin Hoffman's hands, business meetings become a powerful tool of design. --Jeffrey Zeldman, Founder, studio.zeldman and A List Apart

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KEVIN M. HOFFMAN connects people, ideas, and solutions in order to solve our industry's pressing design challenges. As Vice President for Design Practices at Capital One, he takes responsibility for assessing, exploring, and accelerating all areas of design with a team of more than 70 very talented human beings. Prior to working at Capital One, he founded and led Seven Heads Design, a network of digital design thinkers who collaborated frequently on major projects. Trusted by major brands over his career such as Capital One, Zappos, Harvard University, Nintendo, and MTV, Kevin's roles as design thinker, agency founder, and product manager have given him a unique perspective on how people interact when they make things. Kevin regularly shares his insights at conferences around the world.

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