How Many Meetings a Day Is Too Many?

I once watched someone fall asleep in a meeting. It was early in my career and I was sitting in a quarterly business review. The organizer had scheduled one hour — but the meeting time bloated to more than three hours. Worse, it was after lunch. As the afternoon stretched on, I could hardly blame the sales colleague sitting next to me for briefly nodding off.

The scene is still playing out today, even more so. Because we are spending too much time in meetings.

In fact, researchers found that...