The 3 Big Questions For A Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
I think that this is a very helpful book. I like the ideas, the 3 big questions to answer as a family so you are clear about what your core values are and what you need to do to align yourselves to them. The first question is "What makes your family unique?" This helps you determine what are your core values are, what you want to be like. The second is "What is your family's top priority right now?" so you decide what to focus on in the next 2-6 months. Third, "How do you talk about and use the answers to these questions?" This will help you decide on practices like holding regular "meetings" and keeping the answers visible so you remember what you are about. It is simple but very helpful when you have to respond to the myriad of great opportunities that seem to bombard us. I'm still working with Jim on question #1... In short, the questions are what makes my family unique? what is our short-term rallying cry? and how are we going to use it? (I have somewhat oversimplified, of course.)I think the concept is a good one--particularly the part about having a central focus/rallying cry for a short time period (2-6 months), and we have decided to adopt some of his ideas for the near future. And it actually has helped us clarify whether/what to commit to in some areas.However, I'm not convinced about the importance of question #1. This may be the author's deficiency, or mine, or the question's, or some combination. I'm also not convinced that this approach is really all that simplifying. Because question #2 also involves addressing the most important maintenance areas, really I end up feeling like I'm still saying "do everything right, and do it now." Which is not terribly clarifying. These things said, I still found it to be worth the read, or at least a quick skim (I admit that the "parable" approach is not my cup of tea). If nothing else, it was food for thought and conversation and I appreciate the power of short-term focuses.
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My husband, who only reads management books, is insisting that I read this one.
—tahseen
Good information & things to talk/think about conveyed in a most cheesy manner.
—PainfulMemoriesBrokenSmiles
Interesting story about applying business strategy to a family.
—hazel0492
