David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings
Dejvid Grejdi (David Grady): Kako da spasite svet (ili bar sebe) od loših poslovnih sastanaka
David Grady is on a crusade to help you take back your calendar. Full bio
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recognize from down the hall,
about why he took your chair
that are out there.
that you might need your chair
it. You'd make a stink.
back to his cubicle
and you're at the office,
up in your calendar.
kind of know from down the hall,
project that you heard a little bit about.
you were invited to the meeting.
meeting invitation, and you go.
unproductive session is over,
desk and you say,
very nice people,
more valuable than office furniture.
of a global epidemic
known as MAS:
Mindless Accept Syndrome
the minute it pops up in your calendar.
čim iskoči u kalendaru.
click, bing — it's in your calendar,
ding, klik, bing - već ti je u kalendaru.
for a meeting." (Laughter)
(Smeh)
the success of any enterprise.
uspeh svakog preduzetništva.
really positive, actionable results.
pozitivni svrsishodni rezultati.
informacionom tehnologijom,
over the last few years.
u poslednjih par godina.
(Smeh)
other guy can't run a good meeting,
ne ume da vodi sastanak
Mindless Accept Syndrome,
bezumnog prihvatanja,
that MAS is a global epidemic.
SPB epidemija svetskih razmera.
on Youtube, and in the video,
postavio sam snimak na Jutjub u kojem
conference call you've ever been on.
hate about really bad meetings.
koje mrzimo na groznim sastancima.
no idea how to run the meeting.
koji nema pojma kako da vodi sastanak.
have no idea why they're there.
koji ne znaju zašto su tamo.
into this collaborative train wreck.
u jednu zajedničku katastrofu.
agreement on a very important proposal.
o vrlo bitnoj ponudi.
joining us today, great.
Hvala što si se pridružio, sjajno.
on the call we'd like to get through,
do kojih pokušavamo doći,
prozivanje poimence,
agreement on a very important proposal.
se dogovorimo o vrlo bitnoj ponudi.
(Smeh)
to me, too.
sam to stavio na internet,
thousands of views every month.
hiljade pregleda svaki mesec.
companies in the world,
najvećih kompanija sveta,
heard of but I won't name,
ali koje neću imenovati
this video in their new-hire training
za svoje zaposlene
not to run a meeting at their company.
kako da ne vode sastanak na poslu.
being used by all these companies —
od svih tih kompanija -
a global problem with meetings,
imamo globalni problem sa sastancima,
retirement or death, sigh."
do penzije ili smrti, uzdah".
all of these comments online
sve ove komentare na internetu
that we are powerless
than go to meetings
odlaska na sastanke
poorly run meetings
loše organizovane sastanke
not powerless at all.
is right here in our hands.
je ovde u našim rukama.
high school Spanish,
španskog iz srednje,
"Enough already, make it stop!"
works. It's very simple.
Veoma je jednostavno.
get a meeting invitation
poziv na sastanak
of information in it at all,
that's why it's there.
zato i postoji.
is there for you not to accept immediately.
vas ne tera da prihvatite.
who asked you to the meeting.
osobu koja vas je pozvala na sastanak.
to support their work,
da podržite njihov rad,
of the meeting is,
how you can help them achieve their goal.
kako da im pomognete da ostvare svoj cilj.
a little bit more thoughtful
meeting invitations.
koje sastanke ćete prihvatati.
decisions about accepting it.
sending out agendas. Imagine!
Zamislite!
with 12 people to talk about a status
dvanaestoro ljudi da pričaju o statusu
email and get it done with.
i završiti s time.
behavior because you changed yours.
ako vi promenite vaše.
your chair back, too. (Laughter)
(Smeh)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Grady - Information security managerDavid Grady is on a crusade to help you take back your calendar.
Why you should listen
David Grady is an information security manager who believes that strong communication skills are a necessity in today’s global economy. He has been a print journalist, a “PR guy” and a website producer, and has ghostwritten speeches and magazine articles for Fortune 500 company executives. A mid-life career change brought him into the world of information risk management, where every day he uses his communications experience to transform complex problems into understandable challenges.
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