Description This week Tyler and Garret discuss their wives’ core values, Darin discovers natural peanut butter, and James wins an election in his hometown (he’s not here to talk about it). All of that and the guys discuss the Rocks and Projects from quarter 1. Show Notes 00:00:00 - Pre Show How Darin’s “emphamis” 3D Printer came about 00:02:25 - Show Start - Brought to you by Darin Without James this week 00:03:01 - Follow-Ups Personal Values (of our wives) Tyler’s wife Love - “hard to find self worth without it” Joy Garret’s wife Loyalty - “staying loyal to the priorities in her life” Self Discipline Darin’s guess at his wife’s Compassion / Caring - “she throws herself 200% into things” Accomplishment - “if she has a list of 4 things, 4 things get done” “This week I’ll promise, to think about trying, to get her to do it” Listener Jackson feedback - “Darin you might be the coolest guy I’ve ever met” This comes after a week of Darin beating himself up in an episode 00:12:36 - The Headlines Darin Strategic Product Release Failure - Follow Up Insecurity in application server failures Time to roll back instead of patch and push forward “Get the ducks lined up a little straighter here and roll this forward” Planning Meeting around Roll Back plan Started checked out, got called out, shifted back into the meeting Redeploy code that's safe and built that we already know Personal Note Luci the dog is not doing well and it’s got me down Not working out and walking consistently Tyler Product L10™ - Score of 4.0 Follow up IDS™ on Strategic Release Product process is not up to “snuff” People aren’t following the process we do have D&E™ Day with all direct reports Multiple hard meetings with great conflict 2 of 7 meetings carry over to next week Main takeaway - People that manage others, need more 1 on 1 time with me Garret LT L10™ - easily the worst meeting I’ve ever been a part of Churn not taken seriously enough James got angry I got angry at James We now have 3 - 800 pound mammals in the company Sales - Getting lighter (elephant) Performance Release - At least rolled back (gorilla) Churn - 14% in last 6 months (whale) Cue the “tiny violin” - All the things are all the most important things James (as shared by Darin) Formally elected as Alderman in his home town of Chester 00:35:49 - Topic 2 (1) - Q1 Rocks (and unofficial rocks) - Moderated by Darin How did we do, what got done, what didn’t Garret and Tyler go back and forth on their rocks as Darin keeps score Finance Project - Budget / Financial Model Got it across the line, can actually see how we’re doing against projections Finance Rock - Own accounts payables internally (remove all that we can from Corp Services) Real-time scorecard from Darin “Fair to say this is 200% complete” Knowledge Base move to Hubspot Everything done but “forgot” the ladder to hang the banner 80% complete People Projects Launch new D&E™ Process 100% complete Launch Careers Page and hiring portal 100% and first ever “WOW” moment for James around a Rock “Even behind the scenes here is dynamite” Honorable Mentions (not taken as rocks but still completed) Launch with SaasWorks - proactive customer outreach Infoplus Training Program version 1 Two 100% completions Implement Sandler Selling System Foundations 75% Score (penalty for Sales results) Support move to Hubspot - much more than just migrating from one system to another In its second, hopefully last sprint Give it a 50% Formalize Subject Matter Expert onboarding process Customer facing Asana, new “kick-off” presentation with QWILR Scores a 75% Find and hire an AWS partner Narrowed down to 3 or 4 partners all above our unofficial budget Put on hold - due to budget Scores a 60% (bonus for getting on the same page with James) Retail and 3PL Lead Generation separation Scores a 75% due to miss on Google Ads Launch the new Website 100% complete Final Rankings Facilitator Ari wins Double R Darrin gets second Tyler and Garret bring up the rear Strategic Team - Performance project We hung the banner...upside down….caught on fire...tried to re-hang a burning banner 01:02:20 - Questions and Long Answers On a level of 1-5, how much did you miss James in this episode (1, not at all - 5, completely missed him) Darin - 1 Garret - 3 Tyler - 3 01:03:17 - End of Show Don’t miss the “amazing” Garret Richardson official show notes If you feel inspired, share this show with a friend 01:04:10 - After Show - Natural Peanut Butter Hydrogenated Oil vs Natural Peanut Oil 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
