Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni

Rating: Needs Parent Supervision

Reading level: High School, Adults

An intriguing model for corporate meetings, drawing from comparisons to tv/film. Although the author’s intent is to share a practical model, initially a fictional story is told in a corporate setting to illustrate the new model.

Possible concerns:

• Curse words. Use of the term, “damn.”
• Mental health & medications. A kid with a diagnosis goes off his mental health meds on his own sort of whim, without doctor or professional monitoring. It works out for him in this book, but might be worth discussing the dangers of going off your mental health medication unsupervised. (My family lost a loved one to suicide when they attempted this.)
• R-rated movies/ reference to a provocative scene. There are several references to movies of various appropriateness (The Godfather, When Harry Met Sally). There is a mention of “the restaurant scene” from When Harry Met Sally (when Sally fakes an orgasm very loudly in front of an audience).