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9. Who needs to be here? Who doesn’t? 

It can be tempting to invite everyone to your meeting who 

has even a passing interest or relation to a project. You 

don’t want anyone to feel left out, after all…right? 

The better move is to ask the question: Who needs to be 

here? 

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That means recognizing who the meeting’s most important 

attendees are and inviting them. 

Then, for all those people that could benefit from being 

aware of the meeting, instead make their invitation 

optional, or even better, don’t invite them, but make a list. 

That list then becomes who you’ll send your memo and 

meeting notes to so they’re up to date on what’s going on, 

without having to commit to the meeting. 

This can apply in an office scenario as well, but becomes 

even more important remotely: 

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The larger the group, the harder it is to get