LaPointe: Teams must classify initiatives as either floor risers or ceiling risers
Evan LaPointe · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe · Aug 11, 2024 · at 2:06:11
Evan LaPointe, founder of CORE Sciences, explains organizational performance frameworks to Lenny Rachitsky.
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“It might help to put some language to it as floor risers and ceiling risers, because your company has a horizon of performance that you're heading into, and there's a bottom end of that range and a top end of that range. So as you get better at meetings, not only are you like increasing the, you know, you're raising the floor to get rid of bad meetings and waste, and you might be saving a ton of time or converting useless time into useful time. But you're also might be raising the ceiling. And I would be really specific with yourself and your team about which outcome are you chasing?”
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