Always have an agenda for every meeting which you circulate at least 24 hours prior to the meeting. Give people enough information so that they can make a decision to determine if it is worth their while to attend. Feel free to cancel the meeting if you aren’t able to pull in the key personnel you need. Always come at meetings from a value proposition angle – is it really worth it to gather all of these people into this meeting for this length of time? Think of the time value of all of these people in this meeting, and if you are going to be able to extract enough value. Additionally, during the meeting, constantly look for this – is a discussion is off topic but is still adding value – let it go and guide it to a conclusion – or if it’s going off track – book another meeting with a subset to discuss.  support the show: https://anchor.fm/60usefulseconds/support