October 14, 2009

Yo DaVita !

On Monday night our annual Planning Retreat with the top 25 folks began.   We worked until about 10:30, and then I sat and caught up with a couple people until midnight.  I turned the lights off in bed about 1 am.

While it was so good to spend time with them, it did not feel like a good decision on Tuesday morning when the alarm went off at 6:30 am.  I went down and did 20 good minutes on the lifecycle, but only had time for about 4 minutes of stretching before I had to run to shower and get ready for the start of the morning session.

I kicked off the meeting with A State Of the Village assessment.  As is customary, I started the State of the Village with a listing of the areas where the senior team and I under performed over the last 12 months, relative to what we would expect of ourselves.

Given I had very little sleep on two of the previous three nights, I was tired.  I lost my discipline, and had 4 diet cokes thru the course of the all day meetings.  Darn.  The good news is the first 3 days of Match the Mayor I did well in this category, so I am not too far off my goal of averaging 1 per day.  Fortunately my eating was reasonable.

It is a good meeting so far.  One of the exercises was “I am the new CEO, and this is what I will do differently”.  And every attendee got to articulate the 4-5 more important changes they would make.  Great stuff!

One for All,

KT