Bernd Steffens offers a holistic and comprehensive book on the topic of meetings. Starting from the existing leadership culture in companies, it presents the possibilities for developing an optimal meeting culture, where the framework conditions on one hand and the personality of the moderator in dealing with authority, emotions, conflicts, and suitable methods for cooperative decision-making on the other hand are central. The best tools are of no use if the meeting culture is not right and the moderator's attitude is inappropriate. Other topics include addressing well-known meeting myths, proper planning, and decision-making processes. Meetings improve to the extent that leaders and moderators do not conduct them in an authoritarian style, but rather take them seriously as a social network.