This Harvard Business Review article. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting? is a March 2015 digital article by Elizabeth Grace Saunders that offers a simple tool to help you decide whether a meeting is really necessary. It opens with “Let’s schedule a meeting” has become the universal default response to most business issues. Not sure what to do on a project? Let’s schedule a meeting. Have a few ideas to share? Let’s schedule a meeting. Struggling with taking action? Let’s schedule a meeting. Although scheduling a meeting can be the right solution in many instances, it’s not always the best answer. I’ve come up with a decision tree help you quickly determine if a meeting makes the most sense.”
https://hbr.org/2015/03/do-you-really-need-to-hold-that-meeting