Management discussions in the TikTok and Netflix era
Read a book, attend a conference, listen to a podcast. The last thing you want to do after you got through your to-do list is to dig into a fascinating article on burn-out or how to scale from a small to mid-size company. The call for getting “outsight” can be a lot for the management group.
So we tried something different. I paired up the managers and each team got assigned to watch an episode of Netflix’s The Playbook (Youtube trailer on coaching and leadership. There are five episodes:
- Los Angeles Clippers’ Doc Rivers
- Two-time FIFA World Cup-winning coach Jill Ellis
- Premier League’s José Mourinho
- Serena Williams’ famed tennis coach, Patrick Mouratoglou
- Hall of fame basketball player and coach Dawn Staley
Watching an episode is light-weight and fun. Also the homework was easy:
- Tell me about the coach and their coaching lessons
- What do you think applies to our group and how can you implement it.
- Would you hire this type of person or coach? Why? Why not?
We made small fun presentations and had a great discussion. This was much easier than doing a bookclub on how Amazon scales. Season 2 is around the corner.