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Joy or Misery: That is the difference between being on a team with a shared vision and being on one without.We have made it our life's work to study teamwork and how to create teams that consistently attain shared vision and achieve great results. Come join us as we talk about what we’ve encountered, what we've learned and -more to the point, perhaps - what we continue to learn. Primary Format : Business Also Listed as: Business City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : Unknown Country : UN User Tags: business coaching collaboration core development greatness management protocols shared vision software team teamwork User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: War | Talk Business | IM Business | Software Business | Management | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of The McCarthy Show Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of The McCarthy Show Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of The McCarthy Show Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. 112. Discussions with a Bootcamp Grad Jim and Michele podcast from the first Seattle area BootLuck. They interview Ben Ellinger, a BootCamp grad who creates games at Microsoft and teaches at the Digipen Institute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 110. Thinking Support How to use a Decider-like method to get a team into alignment around a better idea that some get and some do not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 111. Business 101 Part 2: Blindspots As a leader it is crucial that you get help with your blindspots. Jim and Michele also talk about ways to talk to a leader about his or her self-destructive tendencies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 109. Introduction to the Core System Part 9 Jim and Michele review the Ask For Help Protocol. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #20 Get behind the paradigms Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 107. There is an Unconscious Jim and Michele discuss how it is common to ignore the existence and overwhelming power of the unconscious. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Objective Correllative The product is the team, the team is the product - but what really defines a team at it's most basic level, Jim and michele dicuss some Before you set out to make a great team, are you even working as a team? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9. Investigate in Action Witness the investigate protocol in action. Jim investigates Michele about how she feels about step parenting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8. investigate INVESTIGATE How to learn anything from others without driving them nuts. A protocol called Investigate is described. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 7. Money Talks Rewarding employees who show the best behaviours is infintely better than rewarding all employees equally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 6. How To Reward Employees Jim and Michele talk about rewarding employees... Focusing on morale never actually improves morale and wastes time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5. The Booted Jim and Michele talk about the evolution of the core and how they have taken their ideas and had them perfected by others over the past decade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 4. Don't Do Anything Dumb on Purpose People make lots of mistakes, but the key is not to do something you know is dumb on purpose. If you do something or see something dumb, it is your responsibility to stop this waste. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3. Discussion Should be Illegal Discussion usually costs a lot of team energy but doesn’t move the team toward solving the problem. Precious time and energy are expended in discussions which could be funneled towards action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2. Individualism and Unanimity Unanimous team decisions are the best way to get results. Michele and Jim discuss how it is possible to retain one's identity while still getting a team to act with a single voice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 23. Foundations of Mediocrity - Reorgs Reorgs are a great way to increase stalling. When there are no more stories about why things aren't getting done, people usually create reorgs to explain their mediocrity Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 22. Greatness What is greatness, and what you can do to defeat Osama bin Laden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21. Budgetary Blues (Part II) See yourself as responsible for the financial well being of the corporation that you have contracted to work with. Michele does a great impersonation of someone who complains about their budget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20. Budgetary Blues People are more concerned about meeting their budget than making money for the corporation they work for. Jim and Michele examine the fallacies in modern day budgeting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 19. If You Tolerate It, You Insist On It. If you see something happening that you don't agree with but do nothing, then you are condoning it. You are responsible for what you see around you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 18. Templates Jim and Michele discuss the concept of templates and that people are exactly like their primary care giver, or exactly the opposite. Unless you are aware of this tendency, it will govern your actions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 17. The Lumber Tax If you are going to live in the forest, you gotta pay the tax. Men are great to work with, but there is always a price to pay. Michele and Jim give tips and tricks on the different types of taxes you can pay to make working with men easier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16. If You See It, You Own It Jim and Michele talk about what to do if you aren't getting what you want. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15. Family Time Fiona and Alex talk with Michele (their Mom) about how they use the protocols in their life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 14. Alignment Mojo Jim and Michele talk about what to do after figuring out your personal alignment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13. What I Want (Part II) Michele investigates Jim and how his personal alignment is working for him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12. What I Want Are you getting what you want? Jim and Michele discuss the personal alignment protocol which is critical to getting what you want. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11. Solving the World's Problems Jim and Michele discuss the origin of the Perfection Game and how it makes giving and receiving criticism an enjoyable experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10. Aggregating Intelligence We all wait for a genius like Mozart or Einstein to show up and change civilization. Jim and Michele discuss how to create a genius by aggregating the intelligence of a team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 39. Next Generation Decider Michele introduces a new version of decider aimed at making decisions in large groups. If you work with a big team, this podcast shouldn't be missed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 38. In Search of Beauty Jim and Michele welcome Mark to the show and discuss his Alignment of Beauty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 37. Grassroots Booting (Part III) Rachael sings a song and continues to share thoughts on improving The Core. Improvements to Decider and Check-in are discussed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 35. Grassroots Booting Rachael, a core certified instructor and inventor of decider, joins Jim and Michele this show. She discusses her observations on how to establish the core in a grassroots fashion and various experiments she is trying. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 34. Gender in the Workplace For many people it is taboo to talk about the different strengths that men and women bring to the workplace. Not so for Jim and Michele. Each gender brings with it a set of traits that can provide incredible value to a team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 33. Men and their Alpha Trying to understand how to work with men? Jim and Michele examine the power structures that men live in and how to optimize their performance when working in teams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 32. Action Camp Jim and Michele talk about Action Camp, the latest product from McCarthy Technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 31. Ask For Help (Part 2) Jim signs up for the great ask for help experiment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 30. Ask For Help Live from Visilia Country. Jim and Michele explore how asking for help can generate enormous returns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 29. The Perfect Boss Have you always wondered what the perfect boss was like? Whether you want to find or become the perfect boss, this episode is for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 28. Your Boss is Your Best Customer Most people look at their boss as a parent, doing anything they say and wanting their boss to take care of them at all times. A better way is to look at this relationship is to view your boss as your best customer. This means doing a great job no matter how they act. You perform a service and they pay you for it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 27. Foundations of Mediocrity - The Quarterly Analysts Meeting Is it really worth an organization's time to spend the majority of their senior executive's energy getting ready for quarterly analyst meetings? Wouldn't this time be better spent making a great company? Jim and Michele discuss a better way of handling quarterly analysts meetings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 26. Foundations of Mediocrity - The Schedule (Part II) Jim and Michele provide great suggestions on how to effectively accomplish project goals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 25. Foundations of Mediocrity - The Schedule People are willing to proceed as if they can look into a crystal ball and see the future, wasting time and doing the impossible. Jim and Michele give some ideas to get projects done as quick as possible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 24. Foundations of Mediocrity - Reorgs (Part II) Everyone has a pixel. Don't try and control someone's pixel - let them control it. Get everyone engaged in making the vision happen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #8 Beware of a guy in a room Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #7 When you flip the bozo bit on someone, you are writing them off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #6 Jim talks about the importance of milestones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #5 An interdependent team of peers is the best way to ship features. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #4 Always communicate with your team, and tell them what is actually going on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #3 The triangle has three sides, and you can't guarantee all of them. The sides are features, resources, and the schedule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #2 Once you know where you are, only make small incremental changes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #1 If you don't know it, why pretend that you do? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - Introduction Jim introduces his famous speech "23.5 Rules of Thumb" with an anecdote about Napolean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 43. Alignment, The Easy Way Many people take simple ideas and pretend they are complicated when they are afraid of the idea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 42. Trippin to Russia 'n Kiev Jim shares tales from his recent trip to Moscow and Kiev. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 41. No Hurt Feelings Why are people so afraid to share or talk about their feelings? Jim and Michele illustrate how feeling are essential to high performance teams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 40. Next Generation Decider (Part II) Michele continues to share her observations on the next generation of decider. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #23.5 Everything is done on monday Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #23 Get the team into ship mode Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #22 Ride waves Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #21 Cycle rapidly Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #19 Categorize the content Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #18 Establish a shared vision Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #17 Go for scenarios Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #16 State your theme Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #15 Remember one thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #14 Enrapture the customer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #13 If you build it, it will ship Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #12 Design time at design time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #11 Low tech is good. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #10 Don't trade a bad date for an equally bad date Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Three Rules - #9 When slipping don't fall Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 60. What is the message? Every product needs a message in order to succeed. Jim and Michele discuss how to create great messages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 59. Pleasure is an odd number Have you ever noticed that only one person is happy in a marriage at one time? Jim and Michele explore this phenomena. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 58. Integrity Integrity is one of the hardest virtues to maintain at all times. Jim and Michele discuss integrity and explore tough situations we have all faced at work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 57. I'm Crazy - Is that bad? Everyone is a little bit crazy... How much is too much? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 56. Prioritization and Foot Faults Michele and Jim share their wisdom about prioritization and a funny tennis story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 55. Boss Whisperer, Horses, and TReg Cells Jim and Michele show how the natural world containts secrets to teamwork. The discuss how by observing horses and T Cells we can learn much more about teamwork. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 54. Tell a Friend We have a great secret we want to share with the world,. Listen and help spread our secret. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 53. Ask For Help Saga (Part III) Jim goes vulnerable and shares his big personal revelation about the power behind asking for help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 52. Ask For Help Saga (Part II) In this ongoing saga, Jim shares his observations from Russia on Ask For Help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 51. Ask For Help Saga Jim begins a set of updates about his great ask for help experiment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 50. Firing Michele's dad Donald joins the show to talk about firing individuals that don't perform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 49. Hiring Great People Hiring smart people is key to making an organization great. Jim and Michele share what they look for when hiring great people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 48. Welcome Becca Rebecca's joins Jim and Michele to talk about her first experience at bootcamp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 47. Focus On The Best Behaviour Most people give their attention to people exhibiting bad behavior. The best way to get results is exactly the opposite - focus on those people giving the best results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 46. Foundations of Mediocricy - The Agenda Jim and Michele discuss how trying to keep people on an Agenda is unproductive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 45. Status Updates Michele shares how to effectively communicate status to customers and bosses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 76. The Creative Process “The unique unprecedented moment when spirit touches matter…” Guest Patrick McCarthy and Jim discuss the creative process including definitions of creativity, examples of the creative process, and insights into maintaining creative output. View Patrick McCarthy’s paintings at http://www.patrickmccarthygallery.com/ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 75. The Viral Boot A protocol for spreading The Core Technology. How could you boot a group in 90 minutes? Jim and Michele walk through the steps of a viral protocol for quickly booting groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 74. A Boss Whisperer If your boss doesn't stop you, you have a great boss. What makes a great boss? What is the employee's accountability if they have a great boss? Learn the rule of thumb for deciding if you have a great boss, and what your responsibilities are if you do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 73. The Ugliness of Groups Have you ever noticed that even brilliant ideas are rejected by groups? Michele and Jim investigate this phenomenon and share some ideas to help overcome the resistance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 72. Drama If you aren't getting results, then you are in the middle of drama. Jim and Michele talk about how to recognize drama and the issues surrounding it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 71. Technicality Jim and Michele discuss how people can fall into the trap of thinking something is overly technical when it is really poor communmication skills or someone trying to make themselves sound important. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 70. Receptivity Jim and Michele discuss receptivity and how it can drastically improve results on a team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 69. The Chain of Command Jim and Michele talk about craziness when people deal with their bosses and the chain of management above them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 68. Vulnerability People follow leaders who exhibit vulnerability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 67. Credit Mapping Jim and Michele talk about how to take team success and map it to individual careers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 66. One Hundred and Five Days Late Michele shares her tips on how to ship software that is late. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 65. One-One Jim and Michele talk about the benefits of using One-One meetings as a way of managing teams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 64. Trust Trust is a key ingredient in a healthy team. When high levels of trust exist, magic happens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 63. Is pain real or just a symptom? Are pain and sickness an excuse we use when we are afraid of a situation and don't want to face it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 62. House Rules (Part II) A continuing look into the rules that the McCarthy family lives by. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 61. House Rules The McCarthy family talks about the rules that they use in their family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 93. Projected Bad Thoughts If you are having emotional behavior that you think is driven by the belief that someone else (or a group) is thinking ill of you then consider that you might not be seeing the situation clearly. The other person’s behavior may be driven by an entirely different motivation. Jim and Michele share ideas on how you can have a productive loving life by overcoming narcissistic emotional triggers using protocols like Perfection Game and Investigate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 92. Introduction to the Core System Part 5 Commitments seven through eleven of the Core Commitments are explored: "Do now what must be done eventually and can effectively be done now", "Seek to move forward toward a particular goal, by biasing my behavior toward action", "Use the Core Protocols (or better) when applicable" (with "Offer and accept timely and proper use of the Protocol Check protocol without prejudice"), "Neither harm—nor tolerate the harming of—anyone for his or her fidelity to these commitments" and “Never do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 91. Introduction to the Core System Part 4 Commitments two, three, and four of the Core Commitments are explored: “Seek to perceive more than I seek to be perceived”, “Use teams, especially when undertaking difficult tasks” and “Speak always and only when I believe it will improve the general results/effort ratio”, “Offer and accept only rational, results-oriented behavior and communication” and “Disengage from less productive situations: When I cannot keep these commitments, When it is more important that I engage ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 90. Introduction to the Core System Part 3 Jim and Michele discuss the last two subsections of the Core Commitment “Engage when present”: “When I have or hear a better idea than the currently prevailing idea, I will immediately either i) propose it for decisive acceptance or rejection, and/or ii) explicitly seek its improvement” and “Personally support the best idea i) regardless of its source, ii) however much I hope an even better idea may later arise, and iii) when I have no superior alternative idea”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 89. Introduction to the Core System Part 2 The series on the Core Commitments continues by addressing the next two subsections of “Engage when present”: “Always seek effective help” and “Decline to offer and refuse to accept incoherent emotional transmissions”. Seeking effective help is something everyone can improve upon and strengthens relationships. It helps you build trust and become more trustworthy. When you seek effective help you come away as more powerful, more enriched. Jim and Michele also discuss incoherent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 88. Introduction to the Core System Part 1 Jim and Michele introduce the new series about the Core Commitments, a constitution for results-oriented behavior. They share their ideas on what engaged behavior is and how to achieve it as they discuss the first subsection of “Engage when present” - “Know and disclose what I want, what I think, and what I feel”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 87. Ask For Help Saga (Part IV) Michele investigates Jim’s work on his Personal Alignment of self-awareness, and Jim describes his recent emphasis on humility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 86. Parenting and Non-violence Jim and Michele talk about parenting ideas including their opinions on spanking and manifesting non-violence in the family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 84. Pretend Part III: Art Lesson Jim and Michele talk about art as a means to connect with, and learn from, your unconscious (greater) self. Pretend there are no mistakes in art. Pretend mistakes are where your greater self is trying to break through. When you create art your greater self is unrepressed - access your greater self and accept the flow of genius. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 83. Pretend Part II: Seek Diversity Pretend we are designed to connect with others at a high-bandwidth, high-intimacy level. Pretend that the impulse to be with people who are just like you is a self-destructive primitive impulse. Pretend diversity is the secret to success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 82. The Problem of Design Great designers empathize with those who will be using the product. Jim and Michele work through some design ideas and talk about the importance of a shared vision and techniques for improving the design process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 81. How to Talk Like an Adult What are the qualities of an adult conversation? Jim and Michele discuss ways in which adults communicate, and methods for improving the exchange of information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 80. The Art of Pretending Pretend your children have all the ideas and you don’t; pretend the only thing you have on them is experience. Pretend that some better state is true and try it out. Jim and Michele talk about the art of pretending and how it can be used at home and work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 79. A Boss Whisperer Topic: How Bureaucracy Forms How do bureaucracies form? The human tendency to create firewalls can bog down an organization. Learn remedies for bureaucracy mentality and methods to focus your energy where it counts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 78. Introducing The Core using Cheat Sheets Guest Rebecca Frame reports on how she introduced The Core Protocols to her team using the new Cheat Sheets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 77. ScaryIdea Protocol Whatever your reason for holding back a scary or big idea, imagine that each time you choose not to share these ideas, you are limiting your team's potential for creativity. Even if your idea is unusual or impossible to realize, someone on your team may be able to think of ways to make some version of it realized, or at least it will inspire them to think of a better one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 105. Team Energy Management Jim and Michele discuss a variety of topics related to energy management such as indications of energy-draining meetings, energy conservation techniques, and the idea of partnering with someone else to monitor each other’s energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 104. Maturity and Problem Awareness Solving a problem can be categorized into four levels with the first and most basic level being the sensory level. The next level is being intellectually aware that what you sense is a problem. Third is understanding that there are multiple options for solving the problem, and the fourth level is implementing the best option. Jim and Michele talk about different types of problems, the problem solving process, and “outcome based motivation”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 103. Business 101 Part 1 Jim and Michele discuss tips for meeting more effectively. Learn how to reduce the amount of time you spend in unproductive discussion and how to have efficient meetings with measurable outcomes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 102. Introduction to the Core System Part 8 If you realize you are in an inefficient meeting or in a discussion that is going nowhere you have a method of improving the situation: Check Out. The Check Out Protocol requires you to remove yourself if you are in an unproductive situation. If you, or people you are with, are not fully present or if there is someplace else that it would be better for you to be then you should Check Out and do what you need so that you can Check In again. Jim and Michele walk through the protocol and discu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 101. Introduction to the Core System Part 7 The Check In Protocol is an interpersonal connectivity process - it is a method for each person on a team to manage emotions, presence, and their intention to support and adhere to The Core Commitments. Jim and Michele walk through Check In and provide examples and anecdotes of the protocol in use. Check In as deeply as possible; the depth of the group’s Check In translates directly to the quality of the group’s results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100. The 100th Episode In their 100th episode Jim and Michele cover a variety of topics. Ideas about Checking In and Checking Out, maturity, awareness, presence, prioritizing, dynamic project management, and happiness are discussed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 99. Introduction to the Core System Part 6 The Pass Protocol is the most important of all the protocols, and is at the center of the Core System. This simple protocol ensures that your freedom of choice is not neglected at any time; there is no point at which you are not accountable for the results of your choices. The Pass Protocol helps a team achieve greatness by raising the accountability and responsibility of each team member for the decisions they make. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 98. The Head Gap The head gap cost is the cost to the team for one person to have access to another team member’s gifts as if they were their own, and vice versa. Jim and Michele discuss how to reduce a team’s head gap cost - increasing the flow of virtues and the combination of geniuses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 97. Checking Out Be where you want to be, not where you are supposed to be. Be there because you choose to be there. The freedom of The Core allows you to align by passion and engage in what you love. Other ideas and topics in this podcast include: fractal aspects of a block, results of a recent 11-person Bootcamp at Microsoft, and the question “what does greatness taste like”? With guest Rachel Rutherford. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |