The woman at the front of the room, closest to me, knew exactly what was going on, was loving every second of it, and was (mostly) silently laughing her ass off. At a recent working session with a client, we…
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Awkward Meetings – Volume I
Tagged with: awkward, customers, meetings, presentations, sales, tradeshows, travel
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
Contributing to Company Values
A friend/former colleague of mine is starting a company, and from the outset he wants to codify values by which the organization will be run. After drafting a proposed set of values and principles, he reached out to a few…
Tagged with: accountability, Agilicus, bike-shedding, change, conversations, decision-making, discipline, hierarchy, just enough process, meetings, micromanagement, prioritization, return on energy, values
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management
Book Report: Will There Be Donuts?
“If you really mean to change the way you meet, you are going to be messing with the culture of the business and the deep-seated habits of its employees. You’re going to discover that very often the meetings are not…
Tagged with: curiosity, David Pearl, meetings, nearly meeting, productivity, Trevor Manuel, virtual meetings, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
David Pearl’s “Real Meeting Checklist”
To wrap up my old man yells at meetings series, inspired by and drawing heavily from David Pearl’s excellent Will There Be Donuts?, I’ll close the same way Pearl did, with his Real Meeting Checklist. If you’re fine living a life filled…
Tagged with: checklists, David Pearl, meetings, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
The Meeting for Meeting
“You can get your company together whenever you want. There is only one time you must get them together. And that’s when there appears to be no time, no budget, and no good reason. That’s when people really appreciate a purely…
Tagged with: David Pearl, meetings, parties, socializing, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
The Meeting for Selling
“Selling is not just what the Sales department does. We are all selling, all the time. This includes selling stories, ideas, products, and, let’s not forget, ourselves.” – David Pearl In The Reasons Why People Meet, I introduced seven different types…
Tagged with: David Pearl, meetings, presentations, sales, selling, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Leadership, Management, Marketing
Posted in Leadership, Management, Marketing
The Meeting for (Re)Solution
“When you see problem-solving as part of the learning cycle, you transform the (re)solution meeting from a chore to an essential, energizing aspect of your business.” – David Pearl In The Reasons Why People Meet, I introduced seven different types of…
Tagged with: David Pearl, Einstein, meetings, problem solving, problems, Theodore Rubin, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
The Meeting for Innovation
“A real invention meeting is a collective gathering that produces ideas which none of the participants would have had individually.” – David Pearl In The Reasons Why People Meet, I introduced seven different types of meeting. In this post, we examine…
Tagged with: Charles Handy, committees, convergence, David Pearl, disruption, divergence, innovation, invention, meetings, stimulation, teams, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
The Meeting for Decision
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Teddy Roosevelt In The Reasons Why People…
Tagged with: David Pearl, decision-making, Franklin D. Roosevelt, meetings, Obliquity, Peter Drucker, Teddy Roosevelt, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
The Meeting for Discussion
“A real discussion clearly requires a good blend of different perspectives. You want to pick people who can look at a topic in a way that will challenge the blind spots, prejudices, and supposings.” – David Pearl In The Reasons Why…
Tagged with: cognitive science, crowdsourcing, David Pearl, discussions, meetings, Thinking Fast and Slow, Will There Be Donuts?, wisdom of crowds
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
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