While some people associate March with Madness, I associate March with Meetings. By March, the work group meetings were in full force; I went to at least three work group meetings in three weeks, with each being an hour and a half long or more (which comes to 8-10 pages of notes!). In addition to the workgroup meetings, I attended a YDA meeting at the Gardner Center and a phone meeting with Jana and Manuelito.
Though meetings aren’t always glamorous, they are an integral component of sustaining an organization, especially ones that value collaboration as much as Redwood City 2020 and the Gardner Center do. Meetings are a time for a mutual exchange of ideas and strategies, as well as a time to make personal connections with partners. However, the meeting itself is not the thing that keeps organizations like Redwood City 2020 and the Gardner Center afloat. Meetings are great, but only inasmuch as they guide action. If no one translates the ideas generated in meetings to action, then many organizations would be all talk. And that would be true madness.
Though meetings aren’t always glamorous, they are an integral component of sustaining an organization, especially ones that value collaboration as much as Redwood City 2020 and the Gardner Center do. Meetings are a time for a mutual exchange of ideas and strategies, as well as a time to make personal connections with partners. However, the meeting itself is not the thing that keeps organizations like Redwood City 2020 and the Gardner Center afloat. Meetings are great, but only inasmuch as they guide action. If no one translates the ideas generated in meetings to action, then many organizations would be all talk. And that would be true madness.
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