Software for Your Head

PATTERN: CHECK OUT

PROBLEM

When you can't be present, you stay in a meeting anyway, regardless of the cost of your false presence to yourself and your team.

When the goal is truly achieving results, you must remove yourself from the environment when you cannot contribute. Convention suggests it is more important to be physically present than to be actually present, so most people will remain on the scene even when they can no longer contribute. When you cannot add to the process, however, you subtract from it.

Convention suggests it is more important to be physically present than to be actually present, so most people will remain on the scene even when they can no longer contribute.

Use CheckOut when you are aware that you cannot contribute ...