| The Boardroom Movie Star
Frame The Discussion Up Front to Create a Hollywood Ending to Your Boardroom Meetings
Friday evening … that wonderful time when the cares of the workplace can be put on the back burner. It’s a great time to decompress – at home with dinner, drinks, friends, maybe even a movie. And searching for that “what to watch” movie, whether from your local cable/satellite provider or online with Netflix or Apple TV, may be viewed as the easiest part of the whole evening.
But we know, from hard-won experience, that the actual selection of a movie that appeals is often the most challenging aspect of the whole evening. Time seems to disappear as you wander through various offerings and options – selecting various genres, looking at the most recent additions, scanning the ratings by the experts and then looking at previews.
And depending on how many family members, friends or neighbors are involved, time starts to quickly slip away. Everyone seems to have an opinion – based on personal preferences and what they may have read and heard. An hour can easily vanish in this search for something that’s going to satisfy our expectations and satisfy our imagination.
Just like the weekend movie hunt, we also see something simple turn into a big deal in terms of time and decision-making when we look at leadership teams trying to reach agreement on a future course of action.
They often believe the choice will be simple after everyone has shared their ideas and preferences. But the reality frequently turns out to be something far different: It becomes a struggle to gain agreement and make a decision. Different perspectives based on experience and expertise, differing levels of information around the subject, and misaligned interests typically play out in the group setting....... (cont'd)
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