One on one conversations usually have the best information flow

See Narratives and Conversation to understand why.

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We are all different. Meetings with more than three people are difficult because half the people in the meeting:

• Have better more urgent things to do with their time.

  • They already know of bottlenecks they could be usefully applying their time to rather than spending three hours in a meeting

• Many won’t understand the meeting

  • They speak a different language (sometimes literally) but at the very least the jargon used won’t make sense.

  • Large meetings make it difficult for Clarification to occur. People are often embarrassed to admit they don’t understand.

• Even two people in one conversation can have a hard time understanding each other Each person’s Narratives Alter the Meaning of one Conversation

• That is why I structure Decentralized Company Communication around encouraging many many one on one meetings rather than big ‘all hands on deck' meetings.