Its Good To Be Home

I spent a wonderful day Wednesday of this week in a conference room at the Hyatt Hotel in Southfield. It was a meeting of all of the managers in my group to discuss direction and how to improve our performance. The meeting started at 7:30 with a retired Army Colonel talking about what makes a good leader. He had his dress uniform on and gave some great insight into the military version of leadership. Now that is not too far from business leadership in the way battle is fought between opposing forces. In the business world, it may be more than two opposing forces and the strategies may be completely different. I could go on this topic for the rest of the blog but I will save that for another day.

The rest of the meeting was introducing the new teams that had been put together to support our groups and the new requirements for information that we were going to have to send up monthly. Nothing Earth shattering, just more work. They are adding staff at the corporate level and we are being asked to do with less at the plant level. Amazing how that happens. It may not appear to be safe here at the plant, but when push comes to shove, they tend to jettison corporate bodies before plant bodies because we actually make the money to support the structure. Plus, it is easier to hide out here.

Lunch was excellent and the deserts were top notch. I needed plenty of coffee to make it through the afternoon and ended up standing to ensure that snoring didn’t occur. I felt the eyes getting very heavy more than once. It was not that the topics were not interesting. I just normally spend more time moving during that part of the day. Full stomach + warm room + sitting all day + too much information = coma.

It is nice to be back where I have a routine that can be followed. I know what to do when and can allow the chaos to flow around me at my own pace, most of the time. What would we do without routines? Coma anyone?


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