At my previous company, one I started, I would try to organise a meeting with only the most essential people and then people would forward the invite as people would be upset they were not invited (normally because it is a prelim meeting to a wider meeting), the meeting would go from 4 people to 15, people would attend the meeting find it was irrelevant to them or too early to them, which is why they were not invited in the first place, and then complain about too many meetings. Ugh.

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analog31 2 days ago | parent [-]

This is my experience too. My meetings tend to be presentations of results. I invite the bare minimum of people who are likely to be interested, and like you, end up with a full meeting room plus others connecting online, often all over the world.

I figure, they're consenting adults, they're responsible for managing their time.

	▲	dalemhurley 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of mine at the time were workshops. I find workshops work best when there is an agenda and small teams, then you present to the wider group when ideas are more developed. A lot of the time, when additional people attended they would be seeing too early of a concept or idea and too many people would debate little details. I believe the best productivity is in small teams.