The other day I passed a colleague in the hallway, and asked how his last meeting had gone. His report: “It was short. Easy. Nothing big.”
I nodded, said “cool” and continued on with my day. Sounded like a complete engagement to me. He knocked it out and moved on to the next one.
Later on it hit me: Short? Easy? Nothing big? Are those the adjectives I value in my work?
Friends, this is not where we want to be!
Time is our only limited resource: let’s spend it having effective discussions, building shared understanding and achieving tangible results.
Let’s do something every day to move our organizations forward.
Let’s avoid situations where our only objective is to get through the engagement. We have so much more to offer our teams!
Let’s save our “if only”s and complaints about “them” for our fish.
We’ve got a world to change.
(Photo by Spc. Jonathan Wallace, DVIDS)
