The PERFECT GIFT for your long-suffering wife or prospective bride. Or, for any fool of a husband or seriously deluded groom-to-be who hasn't yet understood what he's signed up for. Of course some work meetings are vital and crucial for business, others are an utter waste of time. Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris are the award-winning authors of the bestselling Ladybird Books For Grown-Ups series. From the people who gave you classics such as The Ladybird Book of The Hangover and The Ladybird Book of The Mid-Life Crisis, they bring you this collection of what could have been. Imagine a world where there aren't just the thirty-two Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups you've seen in your local bookshop or downstairs toilet but hundreds and hundreds more . . .

And you sit there trying not to sleep, thinking about all the things you could have been doing with your time. The handy guide to the HUSBAND makes the PERFECT GIFT for any long-suffering wife or prospective bride to give to their beloved husband. Learn all about the different kinds of meetings - brainstorms, catch-ups, face-to-face, virtual, unattended - and how to avoid them completely . . . THE PERFECT GIFT for those who value elegance, affection, cold hearted killing and expensive, clawed to death furniture.Got some time on your hands? Then why not make yourself a cup of tea, grab a biscuit and settle down in your favourite armchair to read this unputdownable guide to The Quiet Night In . . . Ryan has decided this is not fair for a reason that will become no clearer over the next six days of his going on and on about it. While still fundamentally good-natured and good-humored, these little mini-observations and pronouncements, which are teamed up especially well with the vintage drawings, strike a chord more often than not. Because each and every word is chosen with care, and because timing and tone is superb, this is one volume that particularly lends itself to rereading. A very nice effort.

Grandparents spend a lot of time in the garden making everything tidy and pretty, so they have something tidy and pretty to look at while they are doing the gardening And by the time they get home, Jonathan's father might have finished being racist and fallen asleep in his liquorice allsorts.' Then there are examples of people making early morning arrangements to attend meetings [I once attended a so-called 'breakfast' meeting so I mischievously took in cereals and bowls] and then the meeting-speak is explored with all sorts of buzz words and phrases being used, many of which often were unknown to the participants but in my experience only rarely did anyone speak up and ask what things meant. Members of one meeting in the book delighted in using some of the new words and could not resist keep reusing such as 'upskilling'. So much so that another member of the said meeting commented, 'Jethro is really upcheesing me.' THE PERFECT GIFT for the party animal . . . or at the very least, for that person you know who doesn't know when it's time to go home. This is short book that investigates the need for and execution of work-placed meetings in an easy to understand manner. The text is kept simple and lively whilst the messages it delivers hit home hard with laser-focused precision.

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Indeed, there is so much information captured in so few words, it’s entirely possible this review has a higher word count than the book. Arguably, this makes the book one of the most fact-rich business texts available today, a powerhouse of business knowledge that punches well above its weight, which is exactly 127 grams. These great clothes make me look really interesting,' thinks Chris as he sits down at the piano to practise another slow, sad song that gets slightly louder at the end.' This book explores 'The Meeting'. Those never ending sessions at work where you all sit round a table, maybe on a regular basis, listening to someone go on about something that actually isnt really important.

Explore other essential life companions in the Ladybird Books of Mindfulness, The New You, The Meeting, and more. Read more Details Why aren't I at home? Am I running away from home? Am I scared of home? Why is my brain full of weird, horrible thoughts? Is it because running is so very, very boring? Penguin Michael Joseph’s editorial director Rowland White said: "The overwhelming reaction to last year’s brilliant Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups was extraordinary and heart-warming – a real testament to the love and care that Jason and Joel put into writing them. It’s clear, with this new range of titles, that their affection and enthusiasm for Ladybird remains undimmed. We’ll be laughing like drains all over again."At a minimum, this book should be on the desk of every chief executive or senior manager of every business in the world. It’s possibly one of the greatest books ever written about business, delving into the complex dynamics of meetings in the workplace, including individual and group psychology, the influence on productivity and how meetings effect the bottom line. Coldplay's singer Chris Martin has spent weeks working with an important stylist. They have come up with an exciting look for the band's new tour.

Kelly has had to come to terms with the idea that though they spent half their lives together, Gareth was not really paying attention for most of it.' This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. Rachel and Robert's neighbour Mrs Vavasour has complained to the council about their hedge, their cat and the colour of their front door. It is the husband's job to organise this surprise for her, and to keep her informed of every detail about it. By the time he graduates, he will be grown-up: exhausted, hideously in debt and unable to imagine going to bed sober.The flame-thrower has turned the walking corpses into burning walking corpses. Now everything they touch catches fire. Brexit gave us lots of exciting new words, like brextremist, remoaner, bremoaner, remaybe, breprehensible, remaintenance, brexorcist, remaidstone, brex-girlfriend, remange, brextortion, remayhem and bregret. Furthermore, it doesn’t just look at these topics from a standard business point of view. It also includes these dynamics for remote workers participating in meetings by conference calls, meetings for self-employed people and the effect on profit and loss when people are unable to attend a meeting for any reason. It even includes this analysis for other organisations with a captivating case study about The Worshipful Company of Victorian Time Travellers. BBC Radio 5 Live has cut away from coverage of the worst mainland terrorist atrocity in decades because there is an important update from the curling. This delightful book is part of a series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them.