To help secondary school principals make meetings more effective and personally satisfying, this pocket-size pamphlet contains guidelines in the form of 40 rules. Each page contains a rule, a paragraph elaborating on the rule, and a key self-evaluation question. For example, "Better Meeting Rule No. 12 'Stay on Task'" concludes with the question "Do I check periodically during a meeting to be certain that the group is 'on task'?" Among the topics covered in the rules are scheduling, procedures, physical environment, and interpersonal relations. (MLF)