Meetings have a use. Meetings are a good palliative for ownership and trust issues. If nobody is responsible for a feature or decision; or worse several people

Meetings have a use. Meetings are a good palliative for ownership and trust issues. If nobody is responsible for a feature or decision; or worse several people are responsible, and people don't really trust each other to make the right choice, then meetings can force everyone to "get on the same page". Managers should realize that when decisions are getting made in a meeting that someone needs ownership of an area, or the owner isn't trusted by the people that area influences. As an example, if coding style is debated in meetings, someone needs to the "coding style boss". If there already is someone in charge of coding style, then they need to communicate better. This would also apply to more important things than coding style ... but it's a good example of something where the cost/benefits of addressing it in meetings approaches infinity.