Meeting load is a problem in many enterprises,
and a good way to improve productivity in them is to have less of people’s time spent on meetings, freeing them to do other work. At first this seems to mean holding fewer meetings, but of course that is an oversimplification: meetings are a vital part of doing business. What you really need is to optimize what I like to call the footprint of the meetings you hold.
My recent insight article, titled How to Reduce Meeting Footprint in Your Organization, analyzes the many ways this can be effected.
