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S03E02 - The Only Female on a Leadership Team (a Q&A with special guest “Facilitator” Ari)
- 2021/04/29
- 再生時間： 1 時間 28 分
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Description This week James apologizes, Darin discovers laptop computers, Garret tries to do less work, and Tyler “uses James as an excuse”. All of that and special guest Ari Gerber discusses being the only female on a leadership team. Show Notes 00:00:00 - Pre Show “Boiled eggs” in all the forms Executive Director of People and Investor Relations “Facilitator” ARI upgrades her Apple technology Oh...and she’s on this week's episode 00:03:00 - Show Start 00:03:17 - Follow-Ups Update on spreading Jelly with a spoon Garret’s personal experience Scoopability vs spreadability and smash factor 3 Real time follow ups Why not PB&J on toast? Darin finds spoons for jelly a “left handed” experience He may have been using his left hand White bread vs wheat or multigrain bread (so many factors here) Ari may believe that toast and bread are the same thing Darin Luci the Dog update...Still kicking Wife’s core values are still a mystery James wins the aldermanic election (failed to mention “unopposed”) It still counts James still playing his gold plated CEO violin Top 5% for James - Ari in her pure Quad 1 00:17:57- The Headlines Darin Strategic Team finishing the support migration to Hubspot May not be terrible at managing things after all Product releasing (currently not happening) Great conversation with Tyler about short term path “Failed releases” (question the quotes) Follow the existing rules (documented or not) Non work related Obsessed with Obsidian (note taking app) Finally remembered that my computer is a laptop Tyler Product L10™ - scored a 4.4 Started with a Todo not done “Solved after playing my violin” Support tickets not being solved within SLA’s Support migration project carries on …”because of James” Client at risk project Top priority for the company Expected a lot of negative Zoom calls Short Term / Long Term plans for support and engineering Session with James on the Engineering vision “All the things” have me a little behind Garret LT L10™ - scored a 4.0 Issues Todo not done Marketing All the walls around budget and plan Retail and 3PL Sales L10’s™ - scored 4.0 and 3.6 D&E’s almost done Ari’s D&E was terrible (more from her on that) Customer at risk project So far great calls Clean approach and sticking to the agenda Organized all the feedback now onto deciding our approach Ari - Yes she’s a full participant this week “I don’t have L10’s™ so no headlines there” D&E’s™ Happy to not have the same meeting all day every day after 3 weeks Glad to see it working No employees scored below a 12 (out of 15) Mine was terrible Realized that Ari and Garret IDS’ing™ about me doesn’t work Root - Garret doesn’t have the ‘W’ or ‘C’ for managing this seat Career planning finally got delegated Finally got over the hump here Renegotiated the timeline with the entire company Ari may have just tried to throw in a teaser for next week’s episode Investor / Funding Update All fascinating - no conversation has been the same James (as always, only 1) I’m so excited to get into Garret not wanting to be your manager Seems a lot like engineering’s solution of “I’ll just do less work” My one big headline... pause for a sidebar around EO Forum retreat It’s proper background to the 1 big headline Now too the headline “I wanted to come back and apologize for being a miserable ____ the last 8 weeks” Feeling of tearing down others instead of building us all up together Wasn’t the failures that had me angry I was scared in a way I’ve never been scared before Choice of fear or anger...I chose anger Who not How led me to some clarity Focusing on anything but the number one thing I need to focus on is wrong for the company Back to the headline “I am sorry” Second Thing (or 1.2) - The thing that needs to be done is clear Take the emotional side and put it away when it comes to people issues Don’t be heartless Realtime followup Are you now clear on, I just need to find the 8, 10, 12 areas of the company to find the “who” for? Podcast gold moment Failing younger (or earlier) has less ramifications than failing older (or later) When do you want to learn the hard lessons 00:55:55 - Topic 2 (1) - Ari is in town (like actually in Chester, IL with James) 3 to 4 part series What’s it like to be the only female (young relatively speaking) on the leadership team D&E’s™ Career Planning Hiring How do we avoid becoming a company of “30 year old white guys” This week - moderated by James - An interview of Ari (Q&A - a must listen) How are you feeling, what’s on your mind? “I would love to not be the only female of the leadership team” What was it like to be “just” facilitator Ari, and how has that changed moving into a full participant in that L10? ...