8-18-1800

If you want to make a decision, keep the group to 8 or so. If you have fewer or just make the decision by yourself, you're asking for second guessing; not to mention the lack of buy in you'll have.

If you want to do some brainstorming, keep the number around 18 or so. Otherwise good ideas won't make it to the table and you'll have confusing rabbit trails that will lose people.

If you want to push an idea, go for 1800 or as many as you want to.

The challenges?

Part of the problem is we don't know what some (alot?) of the meeting we go to are for. Are they decision making, brainstorming, or idea pushing? It doesn't make any more sense to have an idea push to 3 people than it does to have a decision making meeting with 1800 people. 3 people is OK as long as it's an idea exchange.

Probably the only opportunity that we'll have for the 1800 people is in a worship situation. But don't sweat getting you idea pushed across during worship because it most likely won't be a idea at that point it'll be a distraction.

So. Be it resolved. We'll try to determine what the purpose of meeting more often and then understand if we are set for failure (brainstorming with forty people or idea push to three) and we'll be realistic about where we spend most of our time and energy. (Probably with the 8 and the 18). And the 1800 will often take care of themselves.

8-18-1800 rule courtesy Nick Morgan, Running Meetings