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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.