There's a meeting on your calendar this week that hasn't produced a decision in months. It still runs every week. A firm runs a Monday all-hands. Twelve people, remote, three time zones. Same agenda every Monday. New client announcement — one person talks, everyone listens. Policy reminder — again, one person talks, everyone listens. Recognition shout-out — same direction. Deadlines for the days ahead — a list read aloud. Status updates — each person talks for two minutes while ten people wait. Five items. All one way. The stuck client situation that needed three people thinking together? Pushed to “if we have time.” They never had time. The agenda fills with announcements, reminders, recaps — information that lands the same way in a Slack post. The calendar has no room left for the work that needs everyone thinking at the same time: A process question gets bumped. A strategy conversation gets pushed to next month. The collaborative work — the reason the meeting exists — never gets its turn. One firm changed one thing. The CEO records a five-minute voicemail on Friday: The week’s announcements. Recognition. Deadlines. An AI agent structures it into a weekly update post to Slack. Monday meeting: 60 minutes to 25. 35 minutes × 12 people = 7 hours recovered. Every week. Same information. Same team. The only thing that changed was the channel. The meeting didn’t need to be shorter. It needed to be different. What’s the meeting on your calendar that everyone attends but nobody would miss?