Who Attends — The general rule is to have more people in fewer meetings, rather than fewer people in more meetings. That’s true even if only 10 to 15 participants do most of the sharing. At Microsoft, daily meetings can host up to 60 developers, though only 20 gather in a conference room and the rest attend via the videoconferencing tool NetMeeting when working on a new software release. The Ritz-Carlton gathers about 80 people at headquarters for a 10-minute Daily Line-Up to receive updates from Boston to Bali. Meanwhile, all 35,000 Ritz-Carlton employees participate in some kind of Daily
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