The business meeting just became more intense and conflictual, with the meeting organizer justifying the chaos with the usual theories, this is a new team, maybe this is normal for now, one day we’ll achieve harmony. But were we doing our best to make this a productive meeting? Probably not.

Enter Vanilla Ice rapping words of wisdom from his Ice Ice Baby:

1 – All right stop, collaborate and listen! – this is fundamental, we need to pause and sharpen our listening skills. Collaboration, that’s deep, that’s listening, contributing, sharing, all bundled together for creating a great work environment.

2 – Anything less that the best is a felony – are we giving our best effort to work on a solution? If not, Vanilla Ice says we’re committing a crime.

3 – If there was a problem, yo, I’ll solve it – how many times people come to our office for help, only for us to direct them to another coworker? When can we get to that training level and customer service level where the buck stops with us?

4 – Quick to the point, to the point no faking – are we being concise to help the meeting flow? Why are we giving a 45 seconds reply to a yes/no question?

5 – My style’s like a chemical spill, feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel, conducted and formed – are we paying enough attention to the product design? Is this design well formed? Do we have the vision for it? Vanilla Ice apparently does for his rhymes.

6 – Let’s get out of here – Yes it’s 7 pm and we’re still in the office working on that deadline, on that presentation for tomorrow. Where is the work / life balance?

This song to me was an unlikely source for business advice and I thought to share.

Have you come across a song with lyrics related to teamwork or maybe making a profit in business? Please post a comment with any song-based fun advice for the business world.