Clipboard People are list makers. They make lists to track stuff. They track tasks, project lists and sales figures. They check off items completed. They harass engineers and salespeople to finish items. They publish highly complicated status reports. They worry a lot about the lost items they forgot to write down.
Have you ever left a meeting with an action item you scribbled down on a notepad? Was it really important and really vague? Probably you got to your desk, weren’t sure of what to do next and forgot about it. Suddenly it’s 5pm. That piece of paper is buried under some other papers. ”Oh well,” you think, “Someone will send out the action items later.” And you go home.
Enter the Clipboard People. They are the conscience of the Organization and the source of its Accountability (though perhaps not its soul). They are heroes of Execution and utter failures at Strategy.
If, like us, you find yourself confused by how things work at companies, amused by the politics, wondering if you are yourself a meaningless cog in the machine or sometimes (on bad days) banging your head from the stupidity of it all, then you’re at the right place.
