> Perhaps things are different at the top of the tower, but in my experience if your meetings are regularly longer than an hour I'd say you're doing it wrong, or you're holding a workshop and not a meeting.

What do you mean by "top of the tower"? If you refer to my position as software architect, that has nothing to do with it.

I worked at many companies and meeting length was ALWAYS a factor of the company culture not of my role.

Personally I schedule meeting that take 45 minutes max. Most of the time i schedule 25 minutes. The 5 minutes are so people have a break in their Outlook calendar.