More than 70% of Meetings are Useless!

More than 70% meetings are useless.. True.! We have to figure out a way of how effective meetings can be conducted to improve the outcomes of meetings.. I know, there were lot of Experts who spoke about Effective Meetings.. Here are points from my experience.. Please drop your candid feed backs.. 

Meeting should have ACTS  

1. Agenda with Single Responsibility: Meeting without Agenda is like Walking without knowing destination. In such meeting, if the Audience groups happen to common, all tend to discuss multiple points. So, define Clear Single Agenda Point for every Point. Even if it is same Audience Group. It's OK to have multiple short meetings with multiple agenda points with same Audience groups. There has to be a Clear Start & End defined in the Agenda.
2. Conclusion: Meeting should always end with Conclusion. That Conclusion could be a final conclusion or as simple as Actions Items & next Followup Meeting. 
3. Track next actions(Measurable): It's not just concluding meeting, but also further followups in next actions is equally important. That actually defines the need for the followup meetings. 
4. Standing Meeting: Yes, it works. Literal Stand ups, so that people won't extend meetings for long. Because any meeting beyond 15 minutes, it's very difficult for people to focus. Keep the Meetings Short and Precise. 

Meetings should NOT be Conducted for the sake of SIN:

1. Status Updates : Meeting for Status updates, really? We are in era of analytics, effective visualizations should not just talk about status, but also the proper drill down analysis. Can a Meeting projection tell more than that? It's simple duplication. Or May be you are addressing too low capable guys. Think about it. if it is absolutely necessary.
2. Identifying of Problems or lengthier discussions: How people in world can come up with best possible solutions on the fly without doing proper research, pros & cons of a solution is not at all agreeable thing.  Basing on agenda, all attendees should come up with their Research and meeting should be a point of discussion best solution, but not Just Solution.
3. Name Sake : Sometimes, when there might not be much to conclude it's better to cancel the meeting then conducting it once everyone got into agreement into discussing the conclusions. In Such cases Emails or One-One will work better then large audience meetings.