As organizations grow, running meetings well becomes essential for protecting productivity. Unprepared meetings waste everyone's time, and letting them dominate daily work is something every team should guard against.

For a good meeting, please have these three things ready before inviting me:

1. The purpose of the meeting — what decision needs to be made

2. The options for that decision — they may be hard to derive, but in most cases they exist

3. Each participant's role — this significantly reduces communication overhead during the meeting

With this information, write a Tech Meeting 1-Pager and circulate it to all participants or team members for comments before the meeting. Often, the need for the meeting disappears while writing or circulating the 1-pager. But when a decision is genuinely difficult or coordination is needed, meet as scheduled.