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Issue No. 48 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting features a cure from best-selling author Max Lucado and a bureaucracy-buster from The Operations Bucket.  And this reminder: you can read the mini-reviews of more than 45 other books at my Buckets Blog at www.JohnPearsonAssociates.com.


   



 


Rich Stearns found his sweet spot when he became president of World Vision, according to Max Lucado. “I wonder why I waited 23 years,” Stearns told Lucado.  “This is the fulfillment of who I was created to be.”  That’s quite a statement from the former CEO of Parker Brothers (at age 33), who was the CEO of Lenox, the china and crystal company, when World Vision called.

Lucado was not surprised, because he too found his “sweet spot” through the unique assessment process that helped Stearns cement his calling.  Read Lucado’s Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot and help your team members find their “S.T.O.R.Y.” (Max’s acronym for: Strengths, Topic, Optimal conditions, Relationships and "Yes!" moments).

As Lucado does so well, in this book he popularizes the decades of research conducted by People Management International (PMI) with SIMA®, their proprietary discovery process which assesses the core strengths and natural motivation of individuals. (SIMA® is the acronym for System for Identifying Motivated Abilities.) It has helped Stearns, Lucado and thousands more. For more information, visit People Management International.



 

   

Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
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1.Does your calendar reflect your passion?”  Max Lucado was asked this profound question by an executive coach.  It didn’t.  How about your calendar?
2. Are you living in your sweet spot?

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Insights from the Management Buckets Workshop Experience

Do a quick email survey to your team before your next staff meeting with one question.  “Do we have a permission-giving culture here—or are we bogged down in bureaucracy?”

Share the results at your next staff meeting.  Hopefully, your heart is to say YES as often as you can.  The best way to create a permission-giving environment is to push decision-making down to your people in the trenches.  Trust your people with budget decisions, days off decisions, and all the decision-making you can possibly give up.  But, per Dennis Bakke’s bestselling book, Joy at Work, hold high the principle that people rigorously seek advice before decisions are made.

Here’s a wild idea.  Every Friday morning with coffee, host a Bagels & Bureaucracy stand-up meeting.  Award Starbucks gift cards to the best ideas for ruthlessly eliminating bureaucracy.

 

 

Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions: The Operations Bucket
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1. In The Operations Bucket, we strive for effectiveness, not just efficiency.  What’s your most common barrier to effectiveness each week?
2. OK.  Of all the ideas for eliminating bureaucracy today, who gets this Starbucks gift card for the best bureaucracy-busting idea?

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News Flash! The next two-day Management Buckets Workshop Experience will be Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2007, in Orange County, Calif.  There are two Nonprofit Board Governance Workshops planned this fall: Sept. 20 (Chicago) and Nov. 2 (Orange County, Calif.). There’s more information on our website. Join us!.

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