Barbara Weaver Smith

For more than 15 years, we’ve been helping companies and nonpofits accomplish their biggest deals in record time.  I started this company because I was frustrated with the slow pace of getting things done in the bureaucracies where I had been working–corporate, academic, and nonprofit. In each of these places, well-meaning people wanted to get the right things done, but the weight of the system held them down. It was maddening to be a leader inside systems that stifled leadership.

Especially in systems where decision-making is designed to be inclusive–like a university or a community agency–the processes of doing things were completely counter to getting them done.  Like Congress today.  When the inclusive processes fail, someone is going to step in and dictate the next move, thereby increasing the stress on the system and the people who work and live within it and further undermining people’s faith in that system.

So I started a company dedicated to learning and teaching new ways of getting the right things done fast.  We’ve taken on fascinating projects with huge barriers to collaboration, and I’ll write about those and our lessons learned.  I look forward to hearing your examples of overcoming obstacles to getting things done.