Nothing like the threat of a meeting to inspire action. My former boss wanted to have regular meetings because otherwise it is too easy for cross department pr

Nothing like the threat of a meeting to inspire action. My former boss wanted to have regular meetings because otherwise it is too easy for cross department projects to fall behind. Nobody prioritizes it, so things will not get done. It (should) cause some amount of embarrassment to go to the weekly meeting for N weeks and say you have still not done X task.