Steveer Robbins here.

Welcome to the get it done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Melvin was planning the annual meeting of the charity he founded,

necktie tying for the elimination of bedbugs.

Melvin is good at getting volunteers.

He has people to handle promotional giveaways.

I really don't want to know what he

would give away at this conference. People to set up chairs for breakout sessions, audio-visual

presentations, mattress demonstrations, people walking around with complimentary buckets of calamine

lotion, and of course, emergency scissors stations at regular intervals for participants who get

carried away and tie their neckties a little too

tight. The only problem with the conference is that nobody knew where to be when. In the middle of

setting up chairs, the scissors station would have been an emergency. It had no staffer, with 15 necktie

nerds waiting to be extracted from the experimental double-handed backwards

twist-over knot. Half the staff was panicked while the other half was standing around doing nothing.

Melvin called me for help. Fortunately, I had just finished my first lead role as Nathan

Detroit in Guys and Dolls. Being my usual, compulsively organized self, I had, of course,

analyzed and optimized every part of the production that I came in contact with.

What is a conference, but a simpler version of a play?

An event has many moving parts.

Every session needs to be set up.

Audiovisual needs to be arranged, a speaker must be booked, and so on.

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