In my experience, shops with too many meetings don&#x27;t get much done and generally drive high-performing people away; shops with fewer meetings are busy.. working, selling and helping customers.. having smaller, shorter, informal meetings to unblock work.<p>Lots of standing meetings are one big sign of wasted time.  A typical guideline to cut these down is to only allow standing meetings for:<p>- team meetings or project sprints about what was done, what is needed, what is coming up or customer issues<p>- 1:1&#x27;s<p>- all-hands &#x2F; retreats (rare)<p>Otherwise, no meetings without an agenda... which reduces calendar load and makes people plan their thoughts to make the best of everyone&#x27;s time.<p>And as Mark Cuban does, fire all the useless pyramid builders (VPs, managers and coordinators) until only useful people remain.<p>Problem (mostly) solved, until the next meeting.