Ron Friedman

If you go to your boss and you say, hey, how about for the rest of our lives, Tuesday afternoon, we just don't do any meetings.

That might be the thing you want to say.

But the strategy that will probably be way more effective is to say, hey, I've noticed we've been doing a lot of meetings.

And I wonder if we might be able to try this idea I read about in this book, Super Teams, of trying out Tuesday afternoons for an hour and a half, no meetings.

Let's just see how it goes and we'll see how the team feels.

And if we all feel a lot more productive, maybe we can try it again.

If you position it as an experiment, it's way easier for people to accept and to try because it's really hard to tell your team, no, I'm not willing to try and experiment.

And so that's just one example.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So this is one example of one way you can apply it.

And also, we didn't get to talk about this, but in addition to looking at what the best teams do differently, we looked at what the members of those teams do differently.

And so we found a lot of the tips that work for individuals also work in the team level.

So things like planning your week in advance, reflecting on what went well, what didn't well, time boxing, all of those strategies apply to individuals, no matter what team they work on.