Only Way To Fail

S01E05 - Gratitude and Appreciation (while James and Garret disagree on all things)


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This week the guys dive into Rocket Fuel and (un)healthy? V/I friction. Garret hits a homerun, James manages not to buy a laptop, Darin takes action and initiative and Tyler explores “robotic” appreciation. All this plus everything you need to know about the new M1 Mac.

Show Notes

00:00:00 - Pre Show

Tyler and Garret still in isolation

  • Darin can’t talk to humans

  • Interviewing candidates for unknown positions

  • More “Delilah” voice

    00:03:30 - Show Start

    00:03:45 - Follow-Ups - 8 seconds of pure gold

    00:03:53 - The Headlines

    Darin

    Progress on accepting “short weeks” at work

  • Action and Initiative?

  • Wait...where is Darin recording from this week?

  • Tyler

    Big Sprint Release

    “Large stories are hard”

  • Engineering LTM Update

  • Production Performance

    What do we know, what can we fix?

  • Garret

    Challenges of Covid quarantine

  • “Drunken Raccoon” project update

  • Support Quarterly Review 

    Quick, Correct, Empathetic, Less (are they all equal?)

  • Rock Updates - All on track (sort of)

  • James - Just 2 headlines this week

    Immediate segue:

    Real time follow up

    Wanting vs Willing

  • Couldn’t disagree more with Support Review

    “We don’t want all the continuous improvement, just ¼ of supports effort”

  • Garret takes over James’ headlines

  • Back to James…

    Vision and Ethos for Infoplus

  • Strategy for each department

    People, Product, Sales, Financials

    00:28:48 - Topic 2 (1) - Gratitude and Appreciation (it’s Thanksgiving week after all)

    You’ll never guess who’s grateful for StarTrek

  • Recipe for giving good appreciation

    Candor and unarguable truths and more

  • “Seeing specific details like the people that taste the wine with nuts and chocolate”

  • Gratitude makes Garret angry?

  • “This week the ‘asshole’ is played by Garret”

  • Six year old Garret hit a homerun and didn’t get proper appreciation

  • Giving robotic appreciation

  • If others are expecting it, then I can’t give it?

  • Being vs Showing appreciation

  • James’ morning check in routine

  • James has a physical inability to do things that aren’t genuine

  • Watershed moments for James

    01:00:00 - Questions and Long Answers?

    New Accountability chart, is that happening soon?

  • When does James’ December vacation start?

    01:02:55 - End of Show 

    We’re on YouTube

    01:04:02 - After Show - Nerd Alert

    Everything you need to know about the new M1 Mac

     

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    Only Way To FailBy Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, James Maes