Good day, Team! It’s Friday!

We all get bombarded with things that demand our attention, create noise and quietly keep us from accomplishing what we want in any given time increment; hourly, daily, before the week is out, monthly or the ever-present quarterly deadline, let alone year-over-year.

This week, I helped facilitate a discussion with our leadership team on the critically important as compared to the urgent, the perceived urgent or the pesky fire drills that fill our day. It’s important to say NO to much of what’s in front of you. Things like the TV, the email inbox, social media, the needy employee, the chatty friend with not enough to do, the disgruntled peer, the projects that make you feel good but don’t move the needle…and the list goes on.

We walked through a six-hour exercise whittling down several critical business areas to the IMPERATIVE required to produce the financial outcomes we are fully capable of, but got caught up in the “drift”. It was assessment, breakouts, ideation, problem solving, presentation, sift through, prioritize, assign champions and due dates. While not riveting to everyone, as a leader knowing we had to change course, it was fun to hear the ship creaking as we started to change course, right in the meeting. CFO had a big smile on his face…Goosebumps, baby!

Monday will be smoke stacks billowing thick black evidence as we kick down the accelerator with updated  navigation. I just became the self-appointed Project Manager of our 75 day change initiative and I have a stable of champions ready to run with a few guardrails and a weekly check in.

All Aboard!

Giddy Up!

Let’s F’n GO!!

Have a blessed weekend!

Eric