If you want to increase organisational productivity, better meeting behaviours is a good place to start

Ask any executive about their diary and they will likely tell you about how much time they spend in wasteful meetings. 

Concern about meetings is nothing new. After leading a chaotic local church meeting in the 1860s, US Army Engineer Henry Robert wrote a book on good meeting practice. Robert’s Rules of Order was first published in 1876, the same year Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. The most recent edition — the 12^th — was published in 2020, almost 100 years after Robert’s death.