Mike Michalowicz says the sweet spot for a mastermind group is seven to nine people. More perspectives solve problems better, but groups larger than twelve become chaotic and hard to coordinate. Small independent tribes that meet regularly work best.
The essence of a mastermind is the power of the collective mind. 2 human minds working on one challenge is more powerful than one, and therefore 5 or 6 is more powerful than 2. There is a point where the communication stuff starts to break down. So you could have like 100 people working on one problem in a group, and it becomes actually very difficult to coordinate. Disjointed. Disjointed. Exactly. I'm not saying that isn't effective. There's ways of managing that. But generally people work in little tribes independently or as individual standalones and then come together on a periodic basis. In the masterminds I've participated in, the ideal number seems to be somewhere between 7 to 9 folks. Oh, really? Yeah. It seems to be the perfect number for everyone gets a balanced ability to participate and there's enough minds working on that you're gonna get many perspectives. The most I've ever worked at where it still is kind of fluid is about 12 people. Okay. And then it's just like there's a rush or a panic and the balance gets lost.
