We recently acquired a competitor and consolidated our leadership teams, but our weekly Level 10 Meetings™ are now bloated with twelve people and have become highly political. How do we restructure this meeting to maintain traction without alienating the new executives?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A Level 10 Meeting™ with twelve people is no longer a leadership meeting; it is a town hall. Bloated meetings lead to political posturing, superficial discussions, and a complete lack of traction. You cannot solve complex operational issues with a dozen voices in the room.

To fix this, you must immediately redesign your Accountability Chart. Do not compromise your company structure to accommodate the egos of acquired executives. A healthy leadership team consists of three to seven people who own the major functions of the business.

Define the right seats for the combined entity first, without putting names in them. Once the structure is clear, place the right people in those seats based on who GWC™s the role. Those who do not sit on the leadership team should be placed in departmental seats.

These departmental leaders will run their own Level 10 Meetings™ where they can solve localized issues. Restructuring the meeting in this way ensures your weekly leadership pulse remains focused, fast-moving, and highly productive. It also signals to your team and potential future buyers that your business is run by design, not by compromise.

AI never sits in the room. It works before the Level 10 Meeting to prep the data and after the meeting to capture and track what was decided.