• Members of over-sized groups tend to lose respect for the meetings. They prepare less in advance and start to take a more passive -even resigned – role.
• The bigger the group, the lower an individual‘s expectation that her involvement will be noticed.

This is the start of a downward spiral into extremely unproductive meetings.

According to the Stanford study

• Meetings with over 9 attendees are unproductive, as friction grows in proportion to the increase in participant numbers.
• However, in meetings with under 5 people, you run the risk of the participants falling into groupthink. This means people in...