“I want everyone talking about what they would do to make this better. It is amazing what comes out of those meetings.”

I have a meeting every few months that I call a “pile-on meeting.” I bring about 25 people into a room and go over all the different projects that are coming up in the next six months, and the goal is that everybody piles on with their ideas to make those projects as successful as they can be.

The rule walking into the meeting is you must forget your job title. I don’t want the marketing person just talking about marketing. I want everyone talking about what they would do to make this better. It is amazing what comes out of those meetings.

Kathleen Finch, “‘Piling On’ to Get Better Ideas”, The New York Times (6 September 2015), BU2.