Truth 11Too Many Attendees Spoil the Meeting
As a young consultant I was working for a client where we were assigned to reengineer some of its procurement processes. In the middle of our design phase, I set up a meeting with six key managers to review some of the important design changes we were looking to implement. I received positive responses from all the managers, and a couple of them asked if they could bring a lieutenant to the meeting. I didn't see much harm in letting a couple additional people attend. The day of the meeting came and, to my surprise, I had three times the number of attendees I was expecting. There weren't enough chairs, so some people stood. The room was too small for the number of people, and it got quite warm. Despite ...
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