The truly ineffective manager is addicted to action. Give them a problem and they will immediately leap up from their desk and run around making things happen. Managers afflicted with this ineffective habit, fire and then, eventually, aim. The final habit of ineffective people is to call a meeting. Managers who spend their lives in meeting rooms wear dark glasses and mutter Sasco Year Planner like a mantra when they venture outside.
Meetings are the melting pot of inefficiency.
Ideally, you can fill your entire day with meetings. No need to do anything. No need to decide anything. Just indulgent inefficiency. Stephen Covey is probably in a meeting right now.