(2011-09-15) Rands Offsite Meetings

Rands In Repose has a nice piece on running Off Site meetings. It’s called an all-hands and if the all-hands isn’t part of your regular company meeting regimen, I can see why you’re pissed. However, your all-hands is 120 people and my question is: when is the last time you saw 120 people efficiently propose, debate, and then make a decision? An off-site is not an opportunity to ignore opinion; an Off Site is a chance to select a group of folks who are going to best represent the company on whatever huge problem we’re solving. Yes, the selection process is hard.