How to run a successful meeting: List agenda points as questions and ban phones, chairs

When Google co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO a decade ago, one of the first things he did was send an email to all staff about meetings. He issued a number of new rules, including:  

Page took meetings seriously. It makes sense: meaningless meetings come at a huge cost for companies, wasting hours of your most expensive employees’ time – while simultaneously giving the most obnoxious co-workers public platforms to air their unhelpful views, and fuel dissent.