The Rockefeller Habits: Daily vs. Weekly Meetings

One of the reasons I left “corporate life” was to move faster and spend less time in meetings, where conversations go around and around and sometimes never reach a natural conclusion. Still, meetings are mandatory for success — especially as managed services providers strive to get their staff members working toward company and departmental goals. Some simple tips — from books like Mastering the Rockefeller Habits — can help your team to measure its progress on a daily and weekly basis. Here’s how.

For weekly meetings, author Verne Harnish recommends the following one-hour pace:

Also, Harnish recommends scheduling the meeting before breakfast, lunch or happy hour so that the conversation can potentially spill over into an informal setting. I’m not a morning person, so don’t count on any good ideas from me during a pre-breakfast setting.

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For daily meetings:

Generally speaking, our internal teams (sales, editorial) try to have daily meetings at a set time that’s blocked out — perpetually — on everyone’s calendar. Do we really hold those daily meetings every day? I concede, our track record is hit-and-miss. But we’re making progress. And we do stay in topic.

Side note: Frequent MSPmentor readers may have met author Verne Harnish at ConnectWise Partner Summit 2009, where he was a guest speaker and ConnectWise handed out Harnish’s book, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. Just one more example why MSPs need to get out of the office and attend business-centric conferences packed with practical tips and guidance.

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