My former boss swore by daily standup meetings. I said he was wrong.

My old operations manager at a logistics firm in Denver insisted we do a 15-minute standup every single morning. I fought it hard, said it was a waste of time and just interrupted our workflow. After 3 months of me pushing back, we tried it his way for a full quarter, and our on-time delivery rate went from 82% to 94%. I had to admit the daily check-in actually caught a bunch of truck routing errors before they happened. Has anyone else been dead wrong about a process change they argued against?

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aaron89610d ago

3 years ago I would have laughed at daily standups, thought they were just micromanaging BS. But after we started doing them at the warehouse, our morning dispatch screw-ups dropped by like half. I was wrong about that one for sure.

piper_dixon4510d ago

Man, that part about being "wrong about that one" really hits home. I had the same feeling about standups at my old job, thought they were just a way for management to keep tabs on us. But once we actually tried them consistently, it was wild how much smoother everything got, especially catching little miscommunications before they turned into bigger problems. It's humbling when you have to admit you were dead wrong about something you were so sure of.