Today I began an experiment I’ll call #TriviaThursday. Every Thursday, at some undisclosed time, I will announce 15 minutes ahead of time that I will be asking a trivia question. The first person to answer the question in its entirety (according to my assessment) will be awarded a gift (Today I gave away a ten dollar gift card to Amazon.com. He bought Pandemonium).
Today’s inaugural question was who made the following quote AND why this person is famous?
“Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”
3 minutes after the question was asked, DeadMongoose responded,
Peter Drucker was a business management guru who lived well into his 90s. Businesspeople research Peter Drucker for the purpose of gleaning whatever they can about management, strategy and operational efficiency. More of Peter Drucker’s advice:
The need for “planned abandonment”. Businesses and governments have a natural human tendency to cling to “yesterday’s successes” rather than seeing when they are no longer useful. — in other words, plan for obsolescence. It is inevitable for your products and practices.
A belief that taking action without thinking is the cause of every failure. — While this is good advice, I speculate even those that don’t think, think they do. They confuse “having thoughts” with “thinking.” I speculate the only way to really make a powerful distinction between the two is to rack up as many failures as possible and then begin to analyze “why.”
Congrats to the Justin the DeadMongoose and stay tuned for next weeks #triviathursday.
