Like most of us, I attend an endless onslaught of meetings from the time I get to the office until I leave (and even then I am still in meetings sometimes). Some of these meetings are well orchestrated with a clear objective and well thought out materials. And then there are the rest. There is a scale to their lack of effectiveness but frankly I don't care - they just waste my time. There are the obvious cures to these kinds of meetings (like having an objective, having an agenda, etc.), but there are a few not so well documented things that you can do