After a conversation with one of the suits in the office, I got an email late at night that same day…
To our conversation of this morning…
Kennedy’s challenge was to land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth by the end of the decade…but the first step was to build a rocket powerful enough to escape earth’s atmosphere without blowing up.
I think we’re at the same stage. Some of our rockets are going to blow up. Some are just going to fall over. But if we can start to take major ‘time buckets’ out of our production process, we’ll be getting closer to the stratosphere.
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Confident of achieving orbit,
Sometimes knowing that high up in the company problems are understood and the message you were trying to send out hit home is a very rewarding, motivating and inspiring event.
Hope comes in many forms…
I’ve been trying out a new morning routine for a couple of months now. Here’s how it looks.
- I wake up around 8:30
- I pick up my iPhone and read the mails that were sent overnight by my colleagues from around the world (mainly US)
- Mails that require a lengthy answer or research are marked, short answers are sent directly
- Get out of bed by 9:00, take a shower, get dressed and walk to work. So by the time I’m at my desk it’s about 9:40
I find that this strategy offers me a few significant advantages over going to the office and start working through my inbox.
First of all, I give my brain a kick start by digesting work related matters straight away forcing myself to get a lot of stuff into memory instead of somewhere latently present in a galaxy far far away. While I’m walking I give myself time to reflect on the information I just received. Those 20 minutes walking are vital since they largely define a plan of action for the day. I draw up a mental list of people I need to speak to, topics I need to digg in, ideas I want to bounce around in a meeting, … . Basically, I’m compiling a to do list on the way to work, knowing I have the latest info available.
Second, and more important, I’m up to speed before I arrive in the office. Our great landscape office is ideal for being harassed every minute of every day, meaning I hardly ever get a quiet 30 minutes stretch to work through some topics (I’d give money for a private office with a door sometimes).
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