Yes, I have personally struggled a lot. About 5+ years of experience working in a highly distributed company where meetings for me and many colleagues take more

Yes, I have personally struggled a lot. About 5+ years of experience working in a highly distributed company where meetings for me and many colleagues take more than 50% of the time. There a lot of advice out there on how to improve things, but it takes time to master. The other problem is that it is not something that only you need to learn, all your peers have to and that takes time. There are also limits to what you can do with existing technology. Compare the difficulty of doing project task tracking in MS Word versus JIRA/Trello/Basecamp. With meetings, we are still at MS Word stage and Meetter is a JIRA/Trello for meetings.