Still a Problem With Focus

So Friday my boss calls me. "Can you come down?," he asks. "We need to have a skull session."

We're in the midst of planning a major restructuring of our organization, an effort involving a thousand people, millions of dollars, and new employees and facilities in a couple countries. It's big, it's been keeping me hopping, and it sounds like my boss has just gotten some new guidance we need to discuss.

Next month we're holding a planning conference with some of our folks from around the area and around the globe to develop a strategy that, for budgeting reasons, needs to be ready to by February. There's a lot to think about. There's a lot to plan. There are a lot of ideas that need to be "socialized" with other groups. As the strategic planners it's up to us to create the way forward.

I get to his office and sit down. The boss looks pensive.

"OK," he says, "we need to figure out a way to take notes during this conference."

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Are you KIDDING me???

Obviously, he never read this post. It would be helpful if he did, as long as he didn't know I'm the one who wrote it.

Anyway, I told him what to do, and left to go back to work.

Leaders, I implore you: focus your attention on the important stuff, or you're letting your Creatives down.