Pat, Nate, and Paul explore Bench Time and its proper application. If you're on the bench or might be going on the bench soon, this is mandatory listening. We arrive at a number of "problems" and a number of "solutions" but one tag line stands out - "Stay off the bench stay in the bullpen", which is representative of our assertion that you should turn your bench into your bullpen.

3:08 - Nates Bench Adventures - AKA, another Nate Performance Review 5:50 - Quest to transform the bench into the bullpen? 6:42 - Looking at the bench from the individuals perspective 7:24 - Pat's Introduction to the Bench 8:24 - Paul's Introduction to the Bench 9:45 - Nate's Introduction to the Bench & Paul's Time at Borders Books 11:01 - Being an Entrepreneur on the Bench 13:58 - Building the Business From the Bench 17:28 - The Value of Internal Projects 18:33 - Looking at the bench from the company's perspective 21:34 - Giving Your Leaders Time To Lead (ie, how do we get the right people on the bench?) 28:21 - Being Proactive and Valuing Proactivity on the Bench 36:30 - Getting to some "Takeaways" 38:01 - Finding The Main Theme - "Solve your own problem - align your efforts to bringing in new business" 41:13 - Closing it out

Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/