“I wanna be in the room where it happens…”
- Lyric from Hamilton, The Musical
Whatever our stance on RTO (“Return To Office”) or anything else related to where work takes place, there is no substitute for being in the room where it happens.
No. Substitute.
As leaders, if we’re not regularly engaging people in the room, we deny our teams the opportunity to be completely engaged. If we’re not asking them to turn off their phones or at least leave them in the bag until a break, we deny them the opportunity to be completely engaged. Complete engagement is reasonable to expect, especially in the room where it happens.
The room where it happens is where we come together, feel what we hear (or think we heard), and where what we believe gets exposed to the beneficial shine of other people’s lights.
If we have people who don’t want to be in the room where it happens, give them what they want. And put people who want to be in that room in that room.
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