Let's Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done by Dick Axelrod & Emily Axelrod

Author:Dick Axelrod & Emily Axelrod [Axelrod, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.so
ISBN: 9781626560857
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2014-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

ELICIT PEOPLE’S DREAMS

Make no little plans: they have no magic to stir men’s blood.

DANIEL BURNHAM

Congratulations! Having welcomed people, connected them to each other and the task, and discovered the way things are, you have built the first half of your Meeting Canoe. You are now ready to tackle the rest and begin to finish the job.

I’m ready. I really loved the last chapter, “Discover the Way Things Are,” because I learned how to explore the current state, which is crucial to taking action. But my time alarm is about to go off. I already know what needs to happen. What’s this dreaming stuff got to do with it? Besides I’m not here to elicit people’s dreams; I’m here to get things done.

In the last chapter, we said that discovering the way things are is the springboard to taking action. Do you remember that?

Of course. I jumped on the springboard and I’m ready to make something happen. This dreaming stuff doesn’t seem very practical to me.

That is the whole idea. Dreaming is about the future, not what works now.

Discovering the way things are and eliciting people’s dreams are opposites that need each other. If you spend all your time discovering the current state, you end up feeling overwhelmed. There is no future, no way out. If you spend all your time dreaming about the future, you end up being Pollyannaish. It’s one thing to dream of going to the moon without the means to get there. It’s another thing to dream of going to the moon while recognizing what it’s going to take to get there.

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