5 Tips to Make Shorter Meetings EQUAL Better Results By Eve Abbott excerpted from her new book, How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain TM A True Story... I had a client who was scheduled for 30 hours of department meetings a week. His first question was "When are we supposed to do our work?" Organize your meetings with these tips and everyone will get more out of every meeting. Accountability Matrix If you walk away from any meeting without deciding and documenting the who, what and.