Last week I ran a two-day workshop at a resort on Cape Cod. The consulting firm Carlisle & Company had hired me to run their annual off-site.
Yesterday I received an email from Paul Gurizzian, the managing partner, who wrote:
Over the past few days I have pulsed a number of our staff and have received very favorable comments regarding the off-site. People liked the content; some strategic and some tactical. They liked your presentations. Unanimously, I heard this was the right investment of our time.
This is due to you! Your hard work and preparation paid off. Again, thanks.
Bruce Barth, Rob Scheps, Bruno Raberg and myself at Cape Cod.
I covered the first module of my Prepare/Produce/Present workshop, consisting of Strategy/Structure/Storyline, for 28 management consultants -- four hours during Thursday afternoon, and then again four hours Friday morning. On Thursday evening we did a JazzCode performance where I had brought some incredible musicians from New York and Boston -- Bruno Raberg, bass, Rob Scheps, sax and Bruce Barth, piano. It was almost like a college reunion because we all went to New England Conservatory together at the same time in the early 80's. Bruno, with whom I shared an apartment during our sophmore year is now a full professor at Berklee College of Music. Bruce just finished as musical director for Tony Bennet. And Rob came right from a gig in L.A. with his own group.
It is interesting to see how well the Pyramid Principle and the JazzCode works together. Both regimes are about structure and how a shared structure can help all team-members be more present in the moment by having to worry less about how things are done, who does what, and what we want to accomplish.
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