I spent a portion of the day at an organizational design meeting with folks from my Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test Department. We recently expanded the scope of the organization and nearly doubled its size by integrating members of our quality, configuration management, and mechanical engineering teams. I have experienced great restructuring outcomes when employees are invited to participate in the design of the new organization and to self-select into the framework. I was pleased to see this approach adopted by one of my direct reports who met offsite today for this purpose. I made brief introductory remarks, attended much of the morning session, and joined the team for lunch.

Nicolai, Maya and I treated Jeanine to her immediate family birthday celebration this evening. We dined at 80 Thoreau, arguably Concord’s best restaurant. By count this makes Jeanine’s 4th birthday celebration with at least 2 more to go.