This week Tyler and Garret clear the air with each other, James explains his “roller coaster” history, and Darin has 1 mind, 2 hearts, and half a gut. All of that and the group discusses what they like (and dislike) about the V/TO™ (Vision / Traction Organizer).

00:00:00 - Pre Show

Discussing James’ amazingly good looks

00:00:59 - Show Start

3 Nerds and a business guy in a grey hat

00:01:15 - Follow-Ups 

Tyler

How is the leaning into 1 system going?

Asana is great on projects and keeping it simple

OmniFocus has better tools

James only ever touches emails once

Darin

Now that you are both more useful and less useful, how do you feel?

“1 mind, 2 hearts, ½ a gut”

Mainly “Happy Sadness” this week

Garret

An update on the Sandler System Foundations training

Give James all the goose bumps

James

How long will this “high” last around Infoplus, given your roller coaster history?

A review of the eras of Infoplus

00:13:14 - The Headlines

Darin

This week’s Headline Award goes to…

“Trump defeats Dewey and Darin loves life”

Tyler

Getting used to Monday meetings

Product Team L10™ Recap (hint: meeting scored a 4)

Seeing some wins and good feedback overall

Garret

Double “R” $$ still crushing it with financials

3PL and Retail sales team update

Garret refers to an earlier conversation that was edited to the After Show

James (delivered in record time...seriously)

“Evan took me to..court? Task? The cleaners?”

“My good meeting was good”

00:18:16 - Topic 2 (1) V/TO™ (Vision and Traction Organizer)

What are we trying to accomplish this year?

We have the right people

EOS® has 6 parts and Vision is 1 of them

This segment interrupted by “tiny men carrying weird objects”, a song from James to Darin, and “Angry Whale Garret”

Now that we’re past that -Tyler, Garret and Darin discuss 3 likes / 3 dislikes of our V/TO™

Darin Likes

Core Values

10 Year target

3 Uniques...but just the good parts?

Darin Dislikes

Vision not being shared

Long Term Issues (grey, FUD’y’, cloudy area)

3 Uniques...but just the bad parts?

Garret Likes

Infoplus Focus Statement

Core Values

Traction® - taking the big picture to a 1 year goal

Garret Dislikes

Lack of Quarterly review of V/TO™

Lack of 90 day measurable results/goals

It's only “high level”

James interjects with reasons (definitely not excuses) as to why the vision rock failed

Tyler Likes

Overall vision/direction that it gives

Long term goals

Traction® (Taking 1 year to a 90 day world)

Tyler Dislikes

Lack of department level V/TO™

Process of creating and editing the V/TO™

Failure around sharing and understanding of the V/TO™

Finished off with some “Podcast Gold” as Darin nods silently in agreement

00:50:28 - Questions and (Seriously) Long Answers 

N/A

00:50:34 - End of Show 

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00:51:23 - Aftershow  

Easter vs Western Europe 

Which is on the left, which is on the right?

James is definitely wrong (like “math” level wrong)

Tyler schedules and “executes” a Clearing Session with Garret

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