Episode #19 of “Lean Whiskey”: Mark Graban & Cliff Hazell, Talkin’ ‘Bout Tweets

For Episode #19, Mark Graban is joined by a new guest host, Cliff Hazell. Mark and Cliff first met years ago in Austin at the Lean Coaching Summit, where they shared some Garrison Brothers whiskey and talked about Lean, Deming, coaching, and such.

So today, Mark and Cliff share a drink — Amrut whiskey from India for Cliff and Uncle Nearest 1856 Tennessee whiskey for Mark. “Uncle Nearest” is a new brand that's named after Nearest Green, the slave who taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey (read more about that here).

Instead of talking about the news or listener questions, we discuss four tweets that Cliff shared on topics of metrics, busyness, “dead wood,” and more.

The tweets:

If you have dead wood in your company, you either hired dead wood, or hired live wood and killed it.

— Cliff Hazell 🚀 (@cliffhazell) February 23, 2018

When starting out with metrics and KPI’s.

Consider…

1) If this went up what would we do differently?

2) If this went down, what would we do differently?

3) given your answers why do you need the metric?

— Cliff Hazell 🚀 (@cliffhazell) July 16, 2020

I don’t believe in Karma…

I do believe I have very little effect from blaming or ranting.

I sometimes tell myself it “helps me”, but that’s usually not true either.

When I’m not able to reach someone, I ask why…

Most of the truthful answers are “Me” and “My behavior”

— Cliff Hazell 🚀 (@cliffhazell) August 21, 2020

“We’re so busy”

a fancy way of saying

“We don’t know what’s important”

— Cliff Hazell 🚀 (@cliffhazell) August 21, 2020

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Episode #19 Show Links:

Here are some links from the show: 

• Watch the video version of the episode
• You can check out our YouTube channels, Mark's here and Cliff's here (Flight Levels Academy)
• Amrut Whisky
• Uncle Nearest Whiskey
• Cliff on Twitter
• Cliff on LinkedIn
• Flight Levels Academy

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