Follow these tips to run a better business meeting

The meeting is the bane of careers for millions of workers, with many companies in recent years evaluating their worth and striving to engineer a new structure for all the meeting going on.

But the problem may not so much be the meeting as the way many people approach and conduct them, said Neil Lebovits, president and COO of Ajilent Finance, a professional staffing firm.

Do your meetings start punctually? They should. Do your meetings conclude when they're supposed to? And keep your guest list pruned to only the people truly relevant to the meeting.