Steveer Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is how to get your coworkers on board with working less and doing more.

Listener Brian calls in.

Hi, Steven, this is Brian in Seattle. I love the podcast.

They're really great tuneups as I head into work each morning. Speaking of work, the challenge that I'm finding is trying to implement some of the concepts

like, let's say, agendas for meetings, tracking open action items, things like that.

They tend to be viewed as overhead and cumbersome and bureaucratic, you know, process

for the sake of process, if you will. And the groups

as they sort of stifle the agility of the team to just get in a room and hash it out. We're all

very smart people. And if you just let us do what we need to do, we'll figure it out. What do you

do in those cases like that where you know that, while the creativity shouldn't be stifled,

putting structure around it enables the agility

and creativity of the group to be funneled into true actions that have results. Thanks,

Steve, I look forward to the podcast answer on this and have a great day. Well, Brian, now you know

why I've been unpopular at past jobs. I was once sent to learn total quality management along with the senior vice

presidents of the company. When we got back, I said, let's implement some of what we learned.

The Veeps explained, we're smart people, now that we have the information, we'll just sort of

do it. Thank goodness for your smart colleagues. They're spending their time and effort coming up with

bureaucratic hypothetical arguments instead of just trying something new to see if it works.

That's what smart people do. They don't actually try new things. They think about trying them.

Then they learn from the experience, which they never actually have except in their imaginations.

And because they're so good at turning their ideas into real-world outcomes,

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