Doug Kronenberg, the Chief Strategy Officer here at Lumenos, has been writing about his weight loss efforts in The Weight Burn Off blog. If you haven't been following his posts, his most recent entry cited a story about one man's efforts to encourage weight loss for an overweight gentleman who was doing contracting work for his company.
Doug's comments and ideas around this story were thought-provoking for me because I need to drop a few (25 ) pounds myself - I'm curious what the rest of you out there think. Read what Doug wrote below and then post your comments and/or ideas.
I read an interesting article last week. Seems there was a rather successful real estate tycoon who was negotiating a deal with a contractor to complete a project for his company. In the middle of the negotiations the tycoon stopped and told the contractor that if he didn't lose 60 lbs he probably wasn't going to live to see the project to completion. If he wanted the job he needed to drop the weight. They agreed on 30 lbs and included an nice financial incentive if he hit the date. He did and the project moved forward. It sure would make life a lot easier if we could have those frank conversations. Not sure how many friends you'd make but ...... I'd be interested to see what others think. Should we be that direct with our clients, our employees, ourselves? Imagine an email campaign with the theme; "Lose that weight or say goodbye to the kids". Would it get people motivated or annoyed. Let me know. If you like it, I've got a couple of other ideas I'm working on.
Doug Kronenberg, Lumen Strategist (for today)