Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists . The morning meeting. Each day for years, it's been a fixture at the office, though. So each day, everybody troops in, sits down, hunkers around the table and longs for the meeting to be over. The odd thing about such meetings is how firmly they take on lives of their own.
Management tends to like meetings because they're the forum in which most managers' work is done.
Have fewer meetings. Have more meetings. Have meeting agendas. Stop and start meetings on time. Don't let one staffer dominate meetings.