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Meeting as cognitive architecture

the design principle that meetings are the primary site of collective thinking and should be structurally designed — with clear purpose, participant selection, and process flow — rather than left to default conventions

Why This Is a Definition

Genus: design principle for meetings. Differentia: primary collective thinking site, requires structural design.

Source Lessons

Meeting design as cognitive architecture

Meetings are the primary site where teams think together. A poorly designed meeting wastes collective cognitive capacity. A well-designed meeting is a cognitive tool that produces thinking no individual could achieve alone.

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