This week the Garret forgets to type up the show description, Darrin and Tyler dig into what went well in 2020 and James sits back, judges, and takes credit. All this and more as the team wraps up 2020, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

00:00:00 - Pre Show

Broken tape measures

Big houses

Artificial vs real tree debate

Hint: Darin’s wrong

Lowe’s Christmas traditions and made up “jingles”

00:04:13 - Show Start

00:04:27 - Follow-Ups - 

Garret

Rock updates

(easily the most riveting follow-up yet)

Real time follow-up

Darin

Possible root issue to the loss of DK’s giggles and 3 progressively worse attempts at 3D printing

00:09:40 - The Headlines

Darin

Product System Performance

1,000 lead bullets and finally a lead cannonball

Too many “oops” in dev ops coding

Open calendar frees Darin up to get things done

James takes full credit as any proper CEO should 

Tyler

“Black Friday” hangover

Finally breathing again

Engineering LTM = Yahtzee 4 (again)

1 out of 2 rocks already complete

James takes full credit as any proper CEO should

Garret

LT LTM (still a shitty score)

Going too deep on root issues

James accurately places blame as any proper CEO should

All the good feels going into 2021

James

Vision - Company and Department level (1 and 3 year)

Castration...what...oh consternation

2021 = Focus on Customer Success

What if we don’t have an engineering department in 2021?

And a little “word candy” to finish it off

00:27:34 - Topic 2 (1) What has worked or went well?

If last week had us below the bar (and Darin made James cry)

Then this week takes us above it

Garret starts with Sales and Client Growth

Brief pause for Darin to gyrate on camera

Work From Home “Covid-19 Adjustment”

Providing great at home setups

15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

James rates Garret’s list live

Engineering Accomplishments

Ninety.io for managing EOS

16th Commitment to personal wellness and growth

Moving to an integrator and more…

James rates Tyler’s list live

Clear, quick, and decisive decisions surrounding Covid-19

Same Page meetings

CSC - Create. Share. Conflict.

Specialization throughout

Podcasting from an oven amongst others…

James rates Darin’s list live (ie. Darin tells James it’s all correct)

We learned and gained clarity

Started Only Way to Fail

“Infoplus Radio”

And Darin invents an app in his mind

Hint: It already exists

00:57:46 - Questions and Long Answers

Will the Infoplus LT be setting new year's resolutions for the company? What about OWTF resolutions?

Darin says “Themes” and here’s why

If rocks are "top priorities for the teams, expressed as 90 day projects" and those go well but the year is worse off, are the rocks not focused on the appropriate items? Or is that not the intended use of rocks?

I am curious, are the processes the same in creating rocks & scorecards?  Who creates them?  Defines milestones/targets?  What level is the buy-in? Leadership? Team?  Individual?

I think I'm also struggling to understand the balance between forming your thoughts *before* sharing or being a garden hose.  As a team that values transparency, it seems like you guys err on the side of stream of consciousness or trying to unpack feelings together. I'm curious how each of you approach that. What do you bring to the team and when; especially Garden Hose James (who's def not on vacay)?

Followed by 5 great minutes of random conversation around proper use of brackets

None → “( )” → “[ ]” → “{ }”

01:11:39 - End of Show 

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01:13:18 - Aftershow  

Darin and his brand new “M1 Macbook Air”

Hosts, Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, and James Maes

Show Notes by Garret Richardson

Proofing and Title by Darin Kelkhoff

Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Brenton Wainscott