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title: How to Have Great Meetings
description: The idea that a smaller group will be more motivated and more focused than a larger one is a pretty simple idea, as is the notion that smart people will do good-quality work. However, this principle that seems to be obvious common sense is one that a surprising number of organizations ignore.
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# [How to Have Great Meetings](https://www.jumpstart.flairinteractive.net/jumpstart/how-to-have-great-meetings)

 Written by [Super Admin](https://www.jumpstart.flairinteractive.net/author/super-admin) | Jun 12, 2013 9:58:00 PM

**The principle** of keeping meetings to small numbers of smart people is a key tenet at Apple and essential to any company that wants to be able to nurture quality thinking. It is a very basic premise – that everybody in the meeting should have a good reason to be there. You’re either vital to the success of the meeting or you should be somewhere else. **Spectators should not be invited.**

The idea that a **smaller** group will be more **motivated** and more **focused** than a larger one is a pretty simple idea, as is the notion that smart people will do good-quality work. However, this principle that seems to be obvious common sense is one that a surprising number of organizations ignore. How many meetings have you sat through in the past years that were massively overpopulated? How often has such a meeting gone way off track? The small meeting rule needs to be enforced, for it is a rule worth enforcing.

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