Are you sitting down right now? Is your chair in a line, upside down, or back to back with another chair? Hopefully Thursday's workshop gave you some new insights on how to work better with others rather than against them.

Mikel warmed us up with some yoga warrior poses. Erin was gracious enough to serve as Mikel's assistant, showing us the proper form.

Spring break contributed to many absences today, but fortunately we still had a full house due to our wonderful guests showing up in force.

We'd like to make a special thanks to:

• Dave Connors - Caterer
• Brian Geffen - Screen printer
• Tom Bordyczewski - Window Cleaning
• Tom Sandler - Picture Framing
• Robert Rosenthal - Send Out Cards

Paul did a great job with his floral show boat table. It was also really nice to see Paul's wife, Ellen, again. Ellen helped out with his show boat and participated in our roundtable.

Group Dynamics

Today we did a roundtable where we did an exercise examining how different groups interact with each other. We split up into three groups, each given a different task:

• Arrange them in a line
• Arrange the chairs back to back
• Put the chairs upside down

Everyone took away different things from this exercise. Some saw how the groups perceived each other as adversaries, and worked against each other instead of together. I know a company where the accounting department delights when marketing screws up, they see each other as competing, rather than collaborating towards the same goal.

Others saw the importance of communication, and how that can help to focus effort and relive frustration.

Still others took away insights into how easy it is to tune out and disengage when you feel frustrated, and like your efforts are bearing fruit.

Personally, I noticed the territorial aspects and see parallels to Apple's iPhone. When Apple first came out with the iPhone other developers started making apps for it. Apple's first reaction was those are my customers ("chairs") I need to protect them ("sit on them"). They did this by updating the phones and breaking all of them that were hacked. Developers then responsed with new hacks to make the phones usable again. So apple did an other fix to prevent them, then the devepolers This fight continued for 1 year before they decided to open the app store (March 2008) and work with the developers ("we could make a line of upsidedown chairs"). Since they started working together last march, they have sold 1 Billion apps.

Thanks to Sue, Carol, Paul, Dave (Pasta Bravo) and Barbara for donating the raffle prizes. Congratulations to the winners and thanks also to everybody that's supporting the group in ticket sales.

Tour de Taglines

Due to the time constraints with the rountable, instead of the typical 30 second commercials, we had a lightning round where all the members simply delivered there tagline. A tagline is an essential component in helping people remember you.  Can you match up the member to the tagline?

We had 20 tips passed today, with 3 escrow tips.

Things to remember:

Tuesday Mornings @ Balboa Park (Balboa & Prado) is the LeTip Bootcamp with Mike Deibler. For the new members that haven't attended the Network training seminar, please contact Erin Fong to coordinate.

Hope everybody has a great week!

Rich & Llewellyn