Most meetings (by far) could be done in minutes. Instead (and I have 1000s of anecdotes literally) people like to pleasantly do things, make jokes, laugh a lot etc. Do painfully long introductions (while everyone was in the mail and already checked Linkedin etc). But worse: ill prepare or not at all and just improvise. Worse yet: see it as a break or even (half) day out. There is place for this, but that&#x27;s not something that should be the norm. It&#x27;s teambuilding, sales etc and it&#x27;s important. For normal meetings, when prepared, meetings can be done in minutes; send an agenda upfront, let people do a few rounds of discourse about those points in the agenda via mail&#x2F;slack and give them a chance to do some research. Then discuss and decide efficiently.<p>There are enough exceptions but that&#x27;s not most meetings. Most meetings are not about a critical company policy or about a critical technical dilemma where core infrastructure has to be changed. Etc.