Despite IT, we all go to more and more of them," reflects Jonathan Day of Mckinsey,.But there must be a way to make them work.They can't all be a waste of time.Perhaps team leaders should do everything they can to make sure they organize them properly.Indeed running meetings well is clearly an art,and a growing number of companies (including Synectics,which modestly claims to run the best meeting in the world) are offering help.Lots of meetings, of course,happen in the corridor or around the coffee machine and those are probably the most efficient sort, because they tend to be spontaneous, small and quick.Bigger ones are usually more problematic, and them members have to put up with meetings where too little thought goes into the agenda, the location,the people asked to attand and the outcome,say those who try to improve them.That allows unimportent ideas or tedious individuals to hog the floor,with the result that a lot of them members fine it hart a look forward to the next meeting.