It's kind of strange, but I came up with the same (more-or-less) rules while I worked. Especially interesting, was that I worked at a place that "required" mee

It's kind of strange, but I came up with the same (more-or-less) rules while I worked. Especially interesting, was that I worked at a place that "required" meetings pretty much every day. I just decided to start skipping them, all of them. Absurdly, nothing happened. I was able to complete all of my work by Tuesday afternoon (skipping the 3 monday meetings). Then I would meet one-on-one with my boss (who agreed that I could try this out), show him what I did, and by wednesday I started something new. Within a month I convinced three of the teams (3 - 8 people) to start doing this. It was pretty awesome it was to improve productivity by just trying to skip meetings I didn't want to attend anyways.