Musings at Altitude

In our organization, we have what we affectionately call “deep dives”, which are meetings with the entire executive team that drill deeply into core issues of the organization.  Over the last two days, we’ve focused on roles & responsibilities, corporate governance and organizational restructuring.  During this meeting, my oldest daughter continuously sent me pictures of my granddaughter, and I can’t possibly believe it was coincidence that her photos exactly matched my mood at the time of arrival!  Here’s the rundown:

(1) Corporate Governance – our most enlightening session and based on that enlightenment, a chance to truly change the fiduciarily accountable activities and the governing cost of the organization.

During this discussion, our team constantly wanted to be fed, trying to understand the issues of corporate governance and seeking allowable ways to accelerate growth and minimize the cost of governance in the organization.

(2) Roles & Responsibilities – for some hard to understand reason, this has been a real yawner for us over the last 6 months…as we’ve opened this dialogue in multiple sessions, we’ve made only modest headway towards any form of go forward strategy causing me to believe this is a real yawner for our executive team:

(3) Organizational Restructuring – This is a tough subject because several of our executive teams are actively engaged in this dialogue while others are seemingly sound asleep; with the critical importance of accelerated growth and maximized operational investment, we can’t have too many examples of this, but we certainly seemed to flirt with it today:

As the granddad, I can take liberty with these photos as I try and convey mid level operations and services.  Although I’m surprised by the wide variety of emotions I felt these last two days, I’m very comfortable that we’ve taken critical first steps towards some strategic restructuring…that’s exciting in itself!

And here’s where I’m off to now:

I’m heading off to dreamland to ponder the things we discussed and the things that we’ve glossed over but need to spend lots more time considering.   The pictures of my granddaughter brightened my day as I tried to stay awake and actively communicate through the dialogue…but alas it wasn’t meant to be…I’ve been yawning ever since and need to join my granddaughter in dreamland!

Thanks for letting me share what’s important to me in our corporate operations as well as what’s important to me in life…don’t often get to do this!