Most companies with more than 20 employees also have some version of a recurring executive staff meeting. These meetings are important, but some are time-better-spent than others. Here are my suggested defaults for making the most of them. Note that while this is written for a CEO's exec staff, I think most of the same defaults apply for any recurring team meeting.
To avoid that, my workflow was to maintain a list as I went through the week and make a note of the specific subtopic of any mtg that the rest of the leadership team might find interesting. If a few leaders do this who see across the company, they can easily surface enough topics to choose from to keep it fresh without scrambling the night before the mtg.
"Just don’t do the same thing every week"++
To avoid that, my workflow was to maintain a list as I went through the week and make a note of the specific subtopic of any mtg that the rest of the leadership team might find interesting. If a few leaders do this who see across the company, they can easily surface enough topics to choose from to keep it fresh without scrambling the night before the mtg.