Is the mood in your company for meetings one of anticipation or aversion?
A prospect this past week reacted to the suggestion of meetings by indicating they have to be careful in their organization to mention the word meeting. His people dislike meetings and generally greet them with annoyance and impatience. It suggests that the meetings they’ve conducted in the past are possibly disorganized, not well prepared, unexciting, lack conflict and do little to energize those participating. It’s also a reflection of what I believe many businesses suffer from. They feel meetings are boring, and a necessary evil.
Allow me to reflect on my current condition and place this in perspective. I’m currently suffering from a condition called dry mouth. It’s a symptom of Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)which can occur after bone marrow transplant for leukemia patients.
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Topics:
meeting rhythms,
Patrick Lencioni,
meetings,
Organizational Health,
Alignment,
Death by Meeting,
Graft-Versus-Host Disease,
GVHD
In May of 1941 the Great Britain was facing desperate times. They were alone in the battle against the Nazi Germany and Italy’s Fascist State. The continent of Europe was almost completely occupied by Axis powers and the Mediterranean and coast of North Africa were being attacked as well. This is the setting for one of my favorite wartime movies, Sink the Bismarck.
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Topics:
Discipline,
Strategic Discipline,
meeting rhythms,
priorities,
Pearsons Law,
metrics,
Businesss Disciplines,
Sink the Bismarck
Developing your leadership skills requires time spent in the kitchen. It requires actually riding the bicycle, cooking the brew, communicating, leading, establishing your presence, and developing your people is a leadership evolution process.
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Topics:
Discipline,
Business Growth,
leadership,
meeting rhythms,
routine,
Strength Based Leadership
Happy Halloween! It’s one of my favorite holidays! It reminds me of the responsibility parents face to ensure their children are safe and that in the face of receiving a deluge of candy they don’t get sick or over indulge in the very incentive the Halloween Holiday presents.
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Topics:
Accountability,
weekly meetings,
meeting rhythms,
performance,
productivity
The Rules are changing. As noted in How Companies Win – Prepare for A Demand-Driven Economy we’ve been moving from a supply-based to demand based economy. The book How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In, by authors Rick Kash, David Calhoun examines this and my blog specifically provides an example from the book on how McDonalds has successfully negotiated this change already.
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Topics:
Customer Feedback,
weekly meetings,
meeting rhythms,
Demand Based Economy
Have you ever had your spouse, a supervisor or manager say something like the following to you? “Doug you did a great job on …., but you really need to work on…...”
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Topics:
Bringing Out the Best In People,
Aubrey Daniels,
meeting rhythms,
positive reinforcement
One of my very good clients in Florida is a season ticket holder for the Florida Marlins. Naturally he’s been very disappointed this year with the Marlin’s performance. Expectations were high with opening a new stadium, brought in a new manager (Ozzie Guillen) and new ball players (Jose Reyes) to make a strong drive for the playoffs and possibly the World Series.
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Topics:
Acute Myeloid Luekemia,
Strategic Discipline,
meeting rhythms,
priorities,
metrics
It’s difficult to describe the respect I have for Admiral Stockdale. The torture he faced at the hands of the Vietnamese was incredible. Yesterday I received some more brutal facts about how things might look moving forward.
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Topics:
Acute Myeloid Luekemia,
Customer Feedback,
Employee Feedback,
Five Dysfunctions of a Team,
meeting rhythms,
Stockdale Paradox,
The Advantage
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