Here's the pattern I've seen at a lot of companies: 1. let's have a meeting! 2. let's make it a regular meeting 3. let's have more meetings 4. let's ma

Here's the pattern I've seen at a lot of companies: 1. let's have a meeting! 2. let's make it a regular meeting 3. let's have more meetings 4. let's make them regular too 5. how come we don't get as much work done as we used to? 6. let's have a strict agenda for each meeting and try to be brief 7. let's have less meetings 8. let's only have meetings that are strictly necessary, and call them ad hoc 9. back to step 1 Whereas my own evolved preference is something like this: 1. let's only have meetings that are strictly necessary, and call them ad hoc