| Shake
That Brain! Volume 2, Issue 12
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For winning solutions AND lots of fun! IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NO SITTING
2.
NO DISAPPOINTMENT
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SITTING
What's the first thing everyone does just before a meeting? Sit
down. Of course! But what if we took an "OPPOSITES" approach? What if
- instead of saying, "As soon as everyone gets seated we can get started"
- we said, "As soon as we get finished, everyone can get seated." That
is: What if we held our meetings with everyone having to STAND UP - and keep standing
up - until the meeting was over? One such meeting attendee, Timothy Gotsick, recalls:
"I had a project team once that had the shortest, most productive meetings
I've ever participated in [because] we took all of the chairs out of the meeting
room. It sounds a little goofy, but it insures that everyone stays on topic and
on schedule." Or how about a meeting out-in-the-hall? No sitting. No leaning
on the wall. Just staying on topic and on schedule.
NO PROBLEM
Wynton
Marsalis and his jazz band were coming to town and I was determined to have my
ten-year-old son meet him. My concern, though, was that if we lined up with everyone
else after the show, we might not be successful. So we did the OPPOSITE - showed
up two hours early and met the stage manager, Maurice, outside at the stage door.
Maurice put us on the guest list and promised we'd be able to meet and talk with
Wynton after the show. ("And if anyone gives you trouble, you just tell 'em
to go get me.") After the show, as expected, there was a large crowd hoping
to meet Wynton. Yet my son and I breezed right in - first class all the way. People
in line stared at us, wondering, "What makes them so special?" What
made us "special" was that we had tried an "OPPOSITES" approach
- trying to meet the star BEFORE the show instead of AFTER.
We were escorted
backstage (which itself was pretty cool) and the moment Wynton saw us he called
out to my son, "I like you already. Look at that smile!" Wynton put
his arm around him, posed for photos and gave my son a moment he'll remember for
the reast of his life. "Dad, I met a real life hero!"
The solution?
Take an "OPPOSITES" approach and meetings get shorter and memorable. Copyright
2005 by Joel Saltzman
Adapted from the book, "SHAKE THAT BRAIN!"
(Wiley, 2006)
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