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• http://www.modernmeetingstandard.com
• Twitter – #meetdomino
• Let’s make meetings a sacred tool again.
• Meetings are powerful things.
• Meetings should be rare.
• The cover is awesome
• Al had to write three books to get this book
• Seth Godin really pushed Al to find his voice
• Jerry McGuire’s mission statement written by Cameron Crowe was an inspiration – http://www.thisisawar.com/PurposeJerry.htm
• “Meetings, like war, should be a last resort.”
• War is expensive and so are meetings
• “No more will we allow our time to be consistently wasted thirty minutes at a time. Our time is too precious, too fleeting.” – Page 45
• Small businesses could
• “No one has built a building inside of a meeting.”
• No one has ever sold a one million dollar consulting package inside a meeting.
• The stuff that leads and creates forward momentum does not happen in meetings.
• Meetings should be pit stops; quick, efficient and enable forward motion
• Organizations have a decision problem, not a meeting problem.
• Meetings create shared responsibility and that’s NOT good sometimes.
• Do not call a meeting to make a decision.
• Resolving a decision is why you call a meeting – THRASH
• Making decisions in meetings – HASH
• Conflict is great in modern meetings because it revolves around making the decision better, but decisions are being made!
• Defend – Someone has to be willing to defend an idea
• http://www.bringtim.com/ – Time is money clock
• Meetings should exist to thrash not hash
• Brainstorms are not meetings – they are polar opposites
• The latin meaning of decide is to kill – We are killing the other options.
• Brainstorming is essential because we need collective creativity

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Todd Henry – http://www.accidentalcreative.com
Todd’s new book – http://ow.ly/5BxWM
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• Introduce conversations about the creative process.
• Help businesses who need to come up with ideas, come up with ideas.
• The create on demand world wears you out.
• Creativity is somewhere between prayer and the U.S. tax code.
• Build infrastructure that helps our creative process.
• Build a rhythm that helps you be brilliant at the right time.
• Elements of creative rhythm:
  • Focus – Finding the problem you’re trying to solve.
  • Relationships – Outside of obligation (family) and convenience (work).
  • Energy – We manage time a lot better than we are at managing energy. We don’t schedule well.
  • Stimuli – Things that spur creative thinking. “You are what you eat.” The same is true of our mind so we must consume good content. Create a study plan – things that cause you to think new thoughts.
  • Hours – Time is the currency of productivity. We focus more on efficiency than effectiveness so we need to focus on how we are creating ideas.
• Everything of significance will have an enemy.
• Organizations are wired to protect what has already been done so as a result they are not fans of “new” things.
• Frustration comes because you think you’re trying to control something that you can’t control.
• Organizations are about control, about clamping down.
• Everyone has art in them according to Seth Godin. Seth believes we will be surprised at the organization’s reaction.
• Conversation needs to happen within an organization even if they’re awkward.
• Creatives want to be listened to and managers want to be followed.
• It is not our nature to stop and talk to each other and that’s likely why it needs to be done.
• Organizations hesitate at big shots and crazy ideas but if you can prove yourself a few times then they will give you more permission to be creative.
• Cover bands don’t change the world.
• The goal is to influence the world, not just get great ideas.

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Peter’s Website
Breast cancer

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• It would be good to read that section to start every day. – Section 79 (Kindle)
• Did a photo session jam and left feeling like it could be bigger
• Father died from lung cancer
• Looked for photo shoots around breast cancer support
• ProjectStoryboard
• The tweets that brought us together:
  
• Peter was the only one who said Peter couldn’t do it.
• He had to put a deadline (shoot date) out in order to get the donations
• Leer Jet, Dodge Vipers, Stretch Hummer Limo
• Get the book at www.ProjectStoryBoard.com
• Started a BIGGER breast cancer project in 2010
• Allison – A fairy tale photo shoot
• Eric – Male breast cancer survivor
• Chick-fil-a Calendar
• How it helped him professionally:
  • – More connections because he needed help
  • – Stretched him too
  • – Taught him to create opportunities
  • – A lot of starting photographers have reached out to him for help
• Develop Indispensability – Location 136
• Build a tolerance of what you can handle later on
• 279 Days To Overnight Success
• How to find a wedding photographer – A practical guide for the busy bride

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1:04:09

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john.do
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• Enterprise taught professionalism and systems
• Entrepreneurial spirit led him to pursue self employment
• Introduced to Purple Cow in the hallway at Dell (Purple Cow)
• Enterprise leaders often have bad filters for following thought leaders (they follow them too easily)
• Willy nilly is dangerous for leaders
• Andy Stanley – “Leadership is a stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable.”
• Successful entrepreneurs realize they can be more effective with a team
• Teams create a “momentum of success”
• When you work by yourself you have to create your own momentum all the time. That is tiring.
• http://devtheme.com/ – Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.
• Does John want to hire Linchpins?
• Teams are successful when they combine. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
• Toilet paper is a need
• You can find emotional satisfaction on “a line” or in a world class startup.
• How to develop yourself continually…
  • – Read a wide variety of literature
  • – Comic books
  • – Fiction
  • – Business books
• Wolverine #50 cover
• John built Michael Hyatt’s blog
• http://michaelhyatt.com/welcome-to-my-blog-30.html
• http://michaelhyatt.com/3-bloggers-every-serious-blogger-should-be-following.html … humbling…
• Most classical institutions struggle with “free”.
  • – “Free is the understood price.”
  • – “Free is the rights to play.”
  • – “If traffic is a metric of value for a blogger…then free work is of high value in this social economy.”
  • – Compliments are free but they are leverage as well.
• StrengthsFinders
• Strengths Based Leadership

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1:15:42

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