Over 15 years ago – I was deep in chaos with a fast growing team and company.  Every day was like a week, every week like a month, and every month like a year. Time was flying and we had to make decision fast to keep up with the speed of growth and the market.  We were struggling – working way too many hours and the pile of things to get done and decisions to be made continued to get longer.  It was the unending uphill battle.

I was at a conference that Verne Harnish was MC’ing and he kept talking about “The Huddle”. I finally went up at a break and asked “What is The Huddle?”  Verne answered – “Easy! It’s a 15 minute (or less) daily meeting with your team that follows a standing agenda of ‘Good News, Metrics, Top priority for the day, Where are you stuck’. This is a concept that seems so simple, yet when used with consistency is GAME CHANGING! But, why does this daily “HUDDLE”...