Rocks into pebbles
Once upon a time there was a manager who didn’t know what it was to manage, and she huffed and she puffed until nobody paid her…
So many meetings. So very very many meetings. Talking and talking and talking about everything and nothing. The good ones end in some kind of conclusion – where the decisions are summarised and the actions noted and the responsibilities set.
And then the sun rises anew and the day-to-day needs a catch up, and new fires need fighting, and other meetings are calling, and the action list gets longer or dustier as intention and commitment fade to wish and desire. And more often than is healthy .. the next time we meet … we talk again, decide again and know that no one will pick up the rock.
Say it ain’t so.
Make it not so.
Take your responsibilities, cut them into pebble size pieces, pick them up. Turn the to-do list into an it’s-done list. At the next meeting, look forward not back.
Skippy strategy: Turn rocks into pebbles, pick them up.
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Focus
Is there ever a lot to do.
The day to day drudge, the fighting of fires, the slippage of suppliers, the irritation of innovation, the curses and…