How do you start your new
projects?
How do you remember what
happened in meetings six months later?
Saturday I started two
projects in a whole new area of my life. I had been collecting
information for a week, and needed to figure out what I knew.
I wrote two one page
descriptions, one for each project, adding everything I had written
in my notes, using the internet to fill in what I hadn’t taken the
time to find previously. A venture capitalist once
said, “You don’t write what happened in the meeting, you write
what should have happened.”
In less that an hour I had
two one page descriptions of what had been accomplished. I was able
to circulate them to other people on the project and get valuable
additions in less than an hour.
After a meeting, I will
type my written notes, answering any questions noted while the
conversation was occurring, using the internet to flesh out the
beginnings of ideas, related details, and taking the time to improve
the first draft questions and ideas of real time.
I put in links, telephone
numbers, quantities, dollars, knowing that later they may be
important.
That one page provides the
foundation of further work for me, for others, and is usually highly
valued by the other people in the meeting, reminding them of ideas
and actions that were lost in the conversation.
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