The below is from the book by Stanley Bing entitled, Executricks.
- No long meeting should take place if it can be replaced by a short meeting.
- No short meeting should take place if it can be replaced by a phone conversation, e-mail, or memo.
- Essential meetings should involve only those who are necessary to make decisions.
- One need not attend meetings in which one's purpose at the meeting is either purely formal or wholly unclear.
- It is the responsibility of every person at a meeting to get to closure as soon as possible.
- The best possible meetin is the one that is actually a conversation between two people not afraid to make a decision.
