Why the Best Midsized Companies Balance Business Meetings with Social Meetings

When the savviest small companies grow up and become midsized, their management teams inevitably come to a profound realization:  meetings can’t just be meetings anymore. Instead, they must become highly disciplined, tightly structured and very efficient assemblies in which key issues are raised, discussed and resolved. That transformation in meeting culture requires good facilitation. Additionally, it demands crisp agendas and methods for “parking” smaller issues so larger ones are not d...