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Sketchy Ideas Episode 64: Epic Chaos Management

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  • Spearity
  • Introduction to topic
    • What happens when things don’t go right

      • 3:30 Intro/ BOATS

      • Recap of Brad’s sickness and some humor
      • Always remember
        • Tea
        • Sleep
        • Chicken soup!
        • Figure out what you need to do when you pivot
        • Most people have been in a position where something did not go right
        • BOATS get you through
          • Gets you through tough moments
          • Stressful
          • Feel like you can’t handle it

            • 6:00 BOATS explained (focus on O)  explained

            • Tying up of loose ends
            • How will OATS solve things
              • Imagine week before event
              • You have zero people coming to event and you are supposed to have hundreds
              • First thing you need to do is observe
                • Observe to understand where you are at
                • Be okay with it

                  • 9:00 BOATS (A, S, and T explained)

                  • A:  Assess the situation
                    • Where everything is at
                    • What the problem is
                    • What are the emotions
                    • Need a giant assessment of everything
                    • You will then understand the situation
                    • T: Triage
                      • Multiple things are bound to go wrong
                      • It is a ripple effect if one thing goes wrong
                      • This is where you have to work with others to understand priorities
                        • Look at resources available
                        • What is the minimum requirement

                          • 12:00 BOATS (S Explained)

                          • You and everyone else need to strategize
                            • There will be a hierarchy
                            • You need to have a hierarchy and decision maker in times of chaos
                            • When you triage, you will understand who the higher authority is
                              • This is the only part that will guide your strategy
                              • Make sure quality of event is maintained
                              • And then you have trust

                                • 15:05 BOATS (T and B explained)

                                • You need to trust that what is going to happen is going to happen if you have already observed, assessed, triaged and strategize
                                • B: Breathe
                                  • If you go right into observation will be skewed if you do not breathe and relax
                                  • “You are living in a lizard brain rather than the rational mind that humans have access to” -B
                                  • Get control and align your head and mind
                                  • You will gain clarity
                                  • People are interconnected so those emotions spread like wildfire-B

                                    • 18:40 All you have to do is follow the strategy

                                    • You cannot perpetuate the chaos-M
                                    • Need to come from a place of calm
                                    • Need to put the “B” in the front
                                    • Need to be able to work smart and give clear direction to others

                                      • 21:00 Heroic Journey

                                      • There is always a breakthrough when you start having a clear mind
                                      • Starts in the head...doesn’t start with strategy
                                      • Growth and scale is done through others
                                        • Need to leverage the best of them
                                        • Not be the best of them

                                          • 24:20 BOATS overview

                                          • All you really need is BOATS when you are in chaos and a solution will form


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