Hosts generously enforce their authority

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exercising your authority once and early on in a gathering is as effective as exercising your body once and early on in your life. It isn’t enough just to set a purpose, direction, and ground rules. All these things require enforcement. And if you don’t enforce them, others will step in and enforce their own purposes, directions, and ground rules.

Priya Parker. (2018) The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. pg. 77