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The author brings his first-hand experience to present an approach toward conducting high-performance meetings, developed by an American management coach. He takes readers through the process step by step, showing how to conduct a constructive, transformative management meeting, so readers can easily extract and apply the practices and strategies to their personal as well as work life.
"'Wow!' Meetings" is ideal for business owners, managers and executives who are not satisfied with the status quo of their company and are looking for ways to boost the performance and profitability of their business. It is also excellent reading for those who are interested in becoming entrepreneurs themselves.

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Editorial Review

Out in the fiercely competitive business world, there are many business owners who are struggling with financial difficulties. At one point, the author of this book, Zentaro Ohashi, was one of them. He started an Internet marketing firm, "Gazooba," in Silicon Valley in 1999. But soon he experienced difficulty in finding enough clients and found himself "in financial difficulty."
That's when he decided to hire an American management coach to save his company. Implementing methods for high-performance meetings brought dramatic improvement to Ohashi's company. In 2001 he sold Gazooba and started teaching the high-performance meeting methods he learned in America to Japanese companies.
The content of a high-performance meeting is very logical and straightforward. It attempts to streamline typical Japanese management meetings which can often be diffuse.
That this kind of miraculous American "turnaround business success story" sells well is rather ironic, because it reflects the reality that thousands of small companies are struggling to survive at the bottom of the IT industry. The book also makes us realize that starting one's own business is no picnic.

Table of contents

• Chap. 1: Future outlook, frustration and predicament
• Chap. 2: When current demands exceed our abilities
• Chap. 3: Let's begin!
• Chap. 4: Self-enlightening the organization
• Chap. 5: A revolutionized meeting mobilizes a company
• Epilogue: What happened to us
• Appendix: How to conduct a revolutionized meeting

About the Author

Zentaro Ohashi founded an Internet marketing firm, Gazooba, in Silicon Valley, California in 1999. He received management training from an American business performance coach. After selling Gazooba in 2001, Ohashi moved back to Japan and founded Management Coach Network, Inc., an affiliate of the consulting firm Management Associates. Ever since, as a management consultant himself, he has been teaching Japanese companies how to conduct "high-performance meetings."
Among Ohashi's client companies that have revolutionized their meetings based on this incredible book are Recruit, Nissen, Price Waterhouse, Honda Motor, British Airways, Sekisui House, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, SMBC Consulting, Information Services International – Dentsu, Tokyo Seimitsu, Fuji Xerox, Canon Sales, Sun Microsystems, Isetan, and Seventy-Seven Bank.
Ohashi was born in Miyagi Prefecture in 1964. He holds a B.S. degree in Information Science from Science University of Tokyo.