Andrew Grove

meeting is nothing less than the medium through which managerial work is performed

The two basic managerial roles produce two basic kinds of meetings. In the first kind of meeting, called a process-oriented meeting, knowledge is shared and information is exchanged. Such meetings take place on a regularly scheduled basis. The purpose of the second kind of meeting is to solve a specific problem. Meetings of this sort, called mission-oriented, frequently produce a decision. They are ad hoc affairs, not scheduled long in advance, because they usually can’t be.

At Intel we use three kinds of process-oriented meetings: the one-on-one, the staff meeting, and the operation review