The article notes that most large firms hold annual leadership summits
for their top executives and discusses how to make these events more
productive. Consideration is given to directing, designing, planning,
and coordinating a summit, the pace and rhythm of summit sessions and
the need for flexibility within them, improving communication between
presenters and attendees, ensuring that the spread of ideas at a summit
leads to later collaboration among attendees, materials to be provided
to attendees, and ensuring the fulfillment of commitments made at a
summit.