Here is an interesting article regarding meetings. Don't be scared it is just the first two or three sentences that are in german. It can hopefully provide a little help to make your meetings easier to go through.
Meetings in general can be good if they are structured correctly and if the person who is facilitating them knows what they want to get out of it and if you don't have too many of them. For some jobs it will be inevitable that you have many meetings (e.g. Sales Reps, Executives etc.) and in this case this article is missing the point. This is for people who regularly go to meetings which they don't necessarily enjoy.
