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- any team member can propose an ad-hoc whole-team meeting at any time.

- any two team members can propose an ad-hoc whole-team meeting at any time.

- any team manager can mandate an ad-hoc whole-team meeting up to four times yearly

The Shopify rule is "no team member and no manager can mandate a recurring meeting with more than one other person."

Any team member thing suits few dominant or extroverted personalities. But people who are not comfortable socially won't propose whole team meeting.

Also, I would expect the management to be the ones to care the most about hoe team functions overall. They should be the ones to notice communication is dying or that we are splitting into subgroups or that someone is isolated work wise (unable to get answers to questions or whatever).

Team dynamic is literally work of leadership, so they should be able to decide on meetings.

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