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A mother watches her daughters stage a fake meeting with an agenda, then abandon it when one points out they're just talking without doing anything. It's a perfect mirror of adult meetings: full of discussion but short on actual action.
A mother watches her daughters stage a fake meeting with an agenda, then abandon it when one points out they're just talking without doing anything. It's a perfect mirror of adult meetings: full of discussion but short on actual action.
When my daughters were really little, they came to their dad and I one day and said they wanted to play a game. They had heard we had lots of meetings, so they wanted to have a meeting too. We got their green plastic table out and pulled out the little red plastic chairs. We each had a paper and a pen, and I explained that we needed an agenda so that we knew what to talk about in our meeting. We put what's for supper on the agenda, and then what should we do this weekend, and then Or why we should keep our rooms clean. Around this stage, little Hannah starts looking at her older sister Jocelyn for some indication if this game is going the way it's supposed to. Jocelyn blurts out, Is this all the meeting is, just talking about stuff? That's boring. Come, Hannah, let's go and draw instead. And the meeting was adjourned. Now, this might be the problem with most of our meetings today. The agenda is full of decisions and warnings, but no real action. No real progress and nothing exciting. Let's change that. Let's put the future on the agenda.
Unlock the Power of Thresholds_ What Ancient Wisdom Teaches About New Beginnings
