[magicalhippo]

> Take a break every 45 minutes.

Perhaps things are different at the top of the tower, but in my experience if your meetings are regularly longer than an hour I'd say you're doing it wrong, or you're holding a workshop and not a meeting.

Get the right people in the room, have a clear agenda and someone to lead the meeting if needed, and it's rare that more than an hour is needed. Often far less. At least in my world. My most productive meetings are around 15-20 minutes.

If you're holding a workshop then I agree, take breaks.

[fzeindl]

> Perhaps things are different at the top of the tower, but in my experience if your meetings are regularly longer than an hour I'd say you're doing it wrong, or you're holding a workshop and not a meeting.

What do you mean by "top of the tower"? If you refer to my position as software architect, that has nothing to do with it.

I worked at many companies and meeting length was ALWAYS a factor of the company culture not of my role.

Personally I schedule meeting that take 45 minutes max. Most of the time i schedule 25 minutes. The 5 minutes are so people have a break in their Outlook calendar.

[magicalhippo]

> What do you mean by "top of the tower"?

I meant the executives, board members and such. Poor phrasing on my part.

> The 5 minutes are so people have a break in their Outlook calendar.

This is a good point. Multiple consecutive meetings with no break sucks.

[Sai_]

Couldn’t agree more.

In my former life as an employee managing teams and projects, I was infamous for having meeting scheduled for 30 minutes which ended in 20 with a plan of action as output.

Long meetings are such a waste.