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I think meetings between management and meetings between the development teams should be strictly separated. The worst meetings are when both types of people are in the same meeting.

For development teams, I run the meetings for the benefit of the team.

Here are the meetings I usually run with a team - Daily Standup, try to keep it below 15 minutes and on track, what are you doing, anything keeping you from doing your job? need any help? - Weekly Knowledge exchange: Let the team share what they did this week and what they learned? Can be offtopic, but not untechnical. E.g. I learned about this algorithm unrelated to work. This is for the team to grow their skills and share some tidbits the others may benefit from. - Bi-weekly Bug review: We look through the list of bugs and see what the underlying cause was for each bug. Ways to fix it are discussed

That's all I run. I hate other meetings with a passion. I've sat in meetings with 30 people that were in a foreign language, what a waste of time.