Comment by mrguyorama

My department head made a point once to instruct us that, if you need it, you should schedule time on your calendar as a meeting to just be "heads down" on work.

We have a lot of meetings so he encourages we do basically whatever it takes to keep meetings timeboxed.

I once was in an incident call where one of the execs was brought in and eventually said "We have 20 people in this call who all have good salaries. It will cost $600 to just inform our customer service agents to take care of this. Let's get out of here"

Management has to push that culture downwards, and reinforce it themselves, and continually encourage it as people join and leave and teams change.