Category: Blog Post

After food poisoning- I get it

It happens.

😕.

Three things to remember when writing a goal for consumption:

• Make the goals close enough for the team to taste it.
• When you make them, make sure you remove unnecessary complexity.
• Contextualize the goal so it pushes a narrative that is clear

When in doubt – just try something.

Now – I don’t mean making some grand scale executive project – no no no. That isn’t getting your hands dirty.

What I mean is, poke around. Go into the workshop (whatever you call it) and start to mess with the tools.

More times than not, if you get the chance to dance for a while, you’ll leave better than you found it.

Every place and space we enter has rules.

We are never ever bringing “culture” to a place, we are changing it.

Learn the rules and see what levers you can pull. Make change happen.

Don’t learn the rules. Be rejected.

You choose.

Yesterday I gave my self permission to wander.

So, instead fo trying to crank through another thirty minutes of work, I decided to take a trip down a local boardwalk and go aimless.

I did it for thirty minutes. I can’t remember much of that time other than smelling the water and how the temperature was about perfect.

There was no endgame.

No objective.

Just a chance to wander. Hear the sounds, smell the roses.

I felt much better when I returned, as if a weight was off my shoulders. I felt freer and sharper.

All because I wandered.

If you haven’t in a while, please wander.

We still have a long way to go.

Don’t give up the fright for justice – use big moments like the March On Washington to inspire – and learn from them.

We have to continue the momentum

When I saw this page in Seth Godin’s “This Is Marketing” a few ideas clicked:

• Matrices clarify – we are visualizing two concepts and forcing a point of view. When I worked as a consultant this worked a ton because it puts things in a way everyone can understand.
• Matrices get us to “That’s Right” – one point that Chris Voss brings up in his fantastic book on Negotiation “Never Split the Difference” is that you as a communicator are correctly mirroring someone’s POV when people say “That’s right.” This tool is a quick way to get there with ideas.
• Good place to start facilitating – add the two ideas above together and you are starting to facilitate 🔥🔥🔥

H/T and thank you, Seth.