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Attendees
- Robyn
- Alphie
- Tim
- Bill
- Brian
- Terri
- Virginia
- Adam
- Jack
Adam
- Buying a house
- Business Coach Training progam
- Applying to PhD program in Organizational Leadership (UOk)
Brian
- Ryder 'Metroflex' program moving well
- STAFF program developing a themed discussion program; 15
topics for 2000
- Invites participation from F3-ers; typically Fridays 12:00
Eastern; request to be added to his email list
- Alphie - received a 'quote of the day' on email today which
was from Brian!
- Potentially set Salvation Army 3-hour record for collections
Virginia
- Just back from family visit in New York
- Setting up a 501-c3 (nonprofit); received commitment from
powerful state Senator to be on Board
- Spoke a month ago on Governor's summit on Aerospace;
commercial aerospace industry taking off. A fellow from Toffler institute approached
her to work with them at NASA.
Robyn
- Swamped in coaching certification program at Hudson Institute;
portfolio due in January ('manifestation of all of [her] learnings')
- Integrating Coaching with business plans in 2000
- Toying with import/export from Bali ideas
- No snow in Tahoe!
- Sonya will be in Tahoe this weekend
- 'The Journey is the Destination'
Terri
- MindJazz (with Tim, Alphie, Bill) - looking at teleconference
in February, speaking in March
- Needs input on Trademarking
- Putting together several business opportunities
- Lots of activity with Dallas / Transportation -- 'partly cool
and partly jumping off a cliff feeling'
- Almost moved to Silicon Valley a few months ago
- Brian - recommended www.futurenet.org
Tim
- Keeping warm by keeping busy
- MindJazz
- Starting an Anchorage chapter for the Alaska Customer Service
Organization - grown to 65 people, meet monthly
- Launched 'Out of the Box' lunches
- Looking at how to use 'out of the box lunch' format in other
settings
- Working with 14 Tribal Planners and Grant Writers; they live
in communities of 50 - 850; city administrators; week-long planning session 6 times /
year. Tim spends a day each session working on Community Building
- Working with a group of 10 people on weekly 'Training without
Walls' program, and several private clients.
- 5 hours and 36 minutes of sun in Anchorage today
- Brian - would like to know more about out of the box lunches;
similarities to STAFF
Bill
- MindJazz
- FastKids - meeting in January
- Brian - Nicole Milander ; Oracle Internet Academy - working in
schools. Curriculum set, piloting early 2000 in various cities
Alphie
- Family - everyone happy!
- BellSouth reengineering; 30% layoffs in 2000
- Working (as is with Bill) in eCommerce area; new, young boss;
transition to new company 'bellsouth.com'
- Responsible for 'BellSouth @Home'
- Worked with Georgia Oglethorpe Awards process for last 4-5
years; currently working to position with Governor
- Joining Board of Georgia eCommerce Commission
- Tift - has been on hold a bit - looking at alternative
properties
- BellSouth FastCompany, gearing up for a fresh start with theme
of 'Innovation, in a downsizing organization'
- Virginia - colleague in Silicon Valley may know model
companies
- Did anyone go to Joline Godfrey session in New Orleans?
Lauren - report from Alphie
- Couldn't join
- Was with Mary yesterday
Mary Berry - report from Alphie
- Husband tentatively diagnosed with non-Hotchkins lymphoma;
chemotherapy starts next week
- Word - 'Trust' - being tested quickly
- Looking for work in Bay area
Jack
- Found out 2 hours ago - Dad has cancer; not freaking out -
insufficient info
- Work - joined with Mike Rudnick in 'Exceed'
- Noticing divide between the 20-somethings and the
40-somethings; challenge to work with people who don't know what they don't know.
- Setting up Intranet; automating things that more mature
companies take for granted
- Essentially, the COO of the practice
Word for 2000
- Reflects next big thing, person you're trying to become,
People's words
- Brian - Enough. Discussion of
'Desiderata'. Book - 'Your Money or your Life'
- Lauren - Integrity
- Mary - Trust
- Karna - Catalyst
- Virginia - will work on word tomorrow. Playing with
'sculpe (?)'. Requests continued friendship
- Jack - Adaptability
- Robyn - considering 'Abundance', 'Duration', 'Creation'
Book - 'Die Broke'
- Bill - considering 'Communion'
- Alphie - 'Rejoice' in everything
- Tim - 'Connect' and 'Collaborate'
(had used 'be mindful' last 2 years); 'Mindful' was Robyn's word for 1999
- Adam - 'Participate'
- Terri - considering 'Be', act from a position
of abundance (not scarcity) - live out the ideas collected
Requests
- Robyn - keep energy going for Coaching calls
- Terri More 'general' calls (see Action Item, below)
- Alphie - ramp up our relationships individually
- Brian - possiblity - 'Big Rocks' contracts (accountability
partners) (see Action Items, below)
- Alphie (Bill) - post on web site a calendar for the year.
Everyone send upcoming events, and books currently being read
Offers
- Tim - offers voice mail bridge (at no charge). Will
handle up to 30. Let Tim know, to avoid time conflicts. If you wish to use it
for business, $10 / hour.
- Adam - Thought-partnership (telephone calls)
- Alphie - Invest 1 day (24 hours) of his time in whatever
any/each F3-er wants; Alphie will pay for travel.
- Robyn - Coordinate another gathering (Anyplace between Tahoe
and Bali)
- Brian - Coordinate with all F3 a day (or time) when we call
all denote that day as a day to give back the to the Community. Post-celebration on
conference call.
- Terri - Receive ideas for MindJazz discussion; assist with
facilitating a topical discussion; pull out the possilibites and tie them down to action.
F3 President's Day gathering
- Not established yet
- Need to reconfirm date - Virginia not available
Takeaways
- Terri - good energy; wonderful start to a new tradition
- Tim - energy
- Brian - incredible to know the [F3] space exists
- Robyn - gratitude for being part
- Alphie - process (agenda, etc) was good; thanks to Tim for
facilitating / logistics; priceless relationships
- Bill - F3 presents a standard for Communion, and a vision for
untapped potential
- Brian - Read 'How to Watch a Sunset' (will post to listserv)
- Adam - More to come! This is a sample of the kind of
generosity in this group
Action Items
- Brian - set conference call to discuss STAFF / out of
the box lunch learnings, experiences, etc Adam, Terri, Robyn, etc. echoed)
- General F3 conference calls. c. every 6 weeks
- Alphie, Brian - set up a 'Big Rocks Contract' process.
Brian's daughter to create token. By January 10, 2000.
- Alphie, Bill - collect FROM EVERYONE, upcoming seminars, books
currently reading, etc.