| Very close to my own rules for meetings. - Meetings must have a purpose. (to echo you above) - The meeting must have a result, some sort of action or next step. Only one. - When the meeting has created a result to address the purpose, the meeting is over. - Someone runs the meeting. They decide when the result has been achieved. (to echo you above) - Someone (explicitly not the meeting runner) takes notes, action items, etc, and records the purpose and result. - The rule is, you invite people who are required to achieve the result. Other people, marked as optional, may attend if they feel they are necessary. Otherwise, optional attendance defaults to not attending. - No recurring meetings, no "informational updates", those we call something else. A hangout. A discussion. A presentation. |