Description 

This week everyone forgets what headlines mean. Garret rocks Rocks with Rocket Fuel. Darin focuses on correcting himself and being more correct and being meta about being even more correct. James doesn’t understand ADHD. And Tyler continues to just be awesome. The team digs into the current inflection point Infoplus is at and pushes into the next level of scale and growth. 

Show Notes 

00:00:00 - Pre Show

• Garret tries O’fallon pumpkin beer - immediately goes back to Natty Lite

00:01:11 - Show Start

00:01:29 - Follow-Ups (with fun new lead in)

• Garret

  • Rocket Fuel Book Club

    • Grading Garret as an integrator

    • Identified some areas to work on

    • Garret learns the word “HOW”

  • Company Rocks

    • 7 Rocks taken - 7 Rocks on track

• James

  • James version of ADHD is laser focusing on a single issue

    • Jahari’s Window

  • Ongoing Board Disagreement

    • To Me = Reactive

    • Garret “Back Door’s” it

• Darin (Maybe the start of HEADLINES)

  • “Listener Darin” caught a mistake that “Podcast Darin” made on StarTrek

  • Conscious Leadership book club

    • Amazing insights gained

    • Amazing insights dispersed to his “mentee” (AKA Jackson)

    • Darin as a villain?

00:24:30 - The Headlines

• Darin

  • See above

• Tyler 

  • He’s back to work

  • Passion projects

  • Great LTM and Retrospective...without Darin

• Garret

  • Jim and Diana book club

    • If I see a “problem”, I’m not above the line

  • LT LTM - 3.8 score

    • Newer Leadership Team member gives Garret all the feels

• James

  • Last week’s (or yesterday’s) Onboarding same page meeting

    • Where are we now and what do we want to create next

  • All things focused on the Board conflict

    • All the want to shift, can’t get there

  • Mac Power Users Episode 560

    • IQ = CPU

    • Can’t change the “CPU”, but can change the software (“brainware”) that you run on your CPU

00:46:52 - Topic 2 (1) - Be the company Darin and James want to work at...what!?

• Company Vision - Finally codifying the details

• What does it actually mean to each of us?

• Garret

  • It’s not EOS or 15 Commitments

  • It’s not the outcome

• Tyler

  • It’s not Blame or Doubt

  • It’s not a lack of challenges

• Darin

  • It’s not a “giant” company

  • It’s not a “shitty small” company

  • It’s not Darin’s ego

• James - “A is equal to A”

  • It’s not driven by money

  • It’s not monoculture 

  • It’s not unhealthy conflict

  • It’s not fuzzy

  • It’s not a fear of failure

  • It’s not unhealthy for families or people

  • It’s not “top - down”

00:65:00 - Q&A

• You all use curious and grateful, not usually associated with senior leadership. What does this look like / mean?

• Darin said Jame’s almost brought him to tears. Why does James make people cry?

• Somehow through commitment 7 “Generating Appreciation”

• Openness and Sharing your “Identi-trees”, wow who does that?

• Can you share Dr. Karla Scott’s bio?

00:66:24 - End of Show 

• Lucy the Dog

00:68:40 - After Show

• All the election chatter - and Tyler’s addiction to updates

The Credits

• 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