Happy Monday all! :)
Month: March 2011
On Breakfast meetings
5 outcomes that happened as a result that I thought were important-
1. Everybody on the team knew they would be given an opportunity to voice their concerns. Everybody felt heard.
2. Victories and accomplishments were celebrated often. This helped the team get closer.
3. Non-core team members also joined in when necessary. So, everybody felt involved.
4. Everybody knew that Guiliani would follow up on their tasks the next morning. So, nothing got delayed!
5. The group reviewed daily and weekly priorities regularly as a unit and cohesion was achieved. Guiliani carefully built his team into a great unit and it was this team that carried New York through the 9/11 disaster. All those breakfast meetings had ensured that they were prepared! Rome was not built in a day after all..
Guiliani’s breakfast meeting idea is an example of taking a simple action and repeating it consistently (like a screw or a vise). For more, do check out the article from Seth Godin here.
So, let’s schedule breakfast meetings for all high priority tasks this week! :)
Modern day oxygen
I shifted in to my new place today and I felt choked for some weird reason.
A classic love story in the 1800s
What might that have been like?
She would have to worry about whether he is still alive. And if he is, if he is well.
Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn’t make much sense in here.
Andy Dufresne: Here’s where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don’t forget.
Red: Forget?
Andy Dufresne: Forget that… there are places in this world that aren’t made out of stone. That there’s something inside… that they can’t get to, that they can’t touch. That’s yours.
Red: What’re you talking about?
Andy Dufresne: Hope.
Red: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane
The Guitar player at Liverpool Street station
‘I went to the bookstore and asked the sales clerk, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said that if she told me it would defeat the purpose.’
Haha.. I love these Carlin-isms!
Happy Friday! :)
The thing that makes it popular… (Seth Godin)
might be precisely the thing that keeps it from working.
Chatroulette was popular because you might randomly see some horrible naked guy. It was like a train wreck attracting rubberneckers. But the very attraction that drew a crowd also ensured it would never be seen as a serious tool.
That kid in school that everyone cheers on as he works to become a class clown might appear popular, but it’s certainly getting in the way of his being taken seriously enough to get into college.
I’d argue that the same thinking applies to the way you first encounter someone. You can certainly be over the top enough to get a handshake or even a meeting, but the thing that got you that meeting might be exactly what costs you the deal.
There are a hundred ways you and your organization can become more popular, earn more clicks, generate more comments… but is popular what you’re after?
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Source: Godin’s blog
‘You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.’
Happy Thursday!
U.P.O.D
‘A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
Sense of humor.. you wonderful thing!