A CEO's Dream: The Nine Second Meeting
Five athletes change four tires and fuel a 200 MPH car in nine seconds.
Your leadership meeting is probably ninety minutes.
Which one has more impact?
The first time I stood close enough to a pit stop at Daytona to feel it was with my social media start-up dwinQ. Watching a pit crew work taught me more about what a meeting is actually for than most meetings ever have. Every person on that wall has one job, knows exactly when their nine seconds start, and disappears the moment it's done. No status updates. No “let's take this offline.” No meeting that exists just because it's on the calendar.
Most leadership meetings are the opposite of a pit stop — long on ceremony, short on decisions. If your team walked away from your last meeting able to say, in one sentence, what changed because of it, you're running a pit crew. If they can't, you're running a parade.
Issue #9 of The Founder's Creed goes deeper on this — link in the comments.