[jmtulloss]

In my experience, meetings follow responsibility. Make somebody responsible for the thing that causes the meeting and you'll get mental and physical time back. Plus you'll give that individual a chance to truly own something end to end.

There are meetings and other tasks that managers must take care of. I like to make a list of those things with a brutally critical eye towards what I _must_ do and figure out how to delegate everything else. Oftentimes this doesn't save time in the short term (you have to teach and then follow up with your delegates), but it works quite well over time.