Justin R. Meats

I'm hiring  a Senior Product Designer! I'm looking for an individual contributor who will have an opportunity to grow into a leadership role as we expand our Product Design / UX  team. This is  RevLocal 's first Product Designer  role and will need someone with a strong research and design background.

I’m excited to be joining RevLocal  as VP of Product to help local business owners gain and retain customers!  Here's the press release that went out today.

This Wednesday, January 13, I am helping virtually host the Columbus Product Club Meetup where Product Consultant, Rich Mironov, is speaking on "How Agile + Product Management helps build the RIGHT things the RIGHT Way".

Happy 3rd Sunday of Advent! Today is Gaudete Sunday.  Gaudete is the Latin word for “Rejoice.”  Advent is a time for preparing for Jesus, and the theme is a need for penitence. Today is different, and the readings emphasize the joyous anticipation of the Lord's coming. 

 Here’s the trailer for a video Isaac and I are making about our Appalachian Highpoints Trip.  5 nights, 7 states, 1,678 miles

This is a work in progress about using the DISC behavioral styles to more effectively communicate with others in meetings, task management, handling conflict, and managing.

Taking Flight! Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships…Your Life by Merrick Rosenberg and Daniel Silvert is a good overview of the DISC Behaviors. It assigns a bird to each DISC style to make them easy to remember. 

One of the fun parts of a smart home is thinking of new ideas to simplify things. I created the following list of smart home conveniences and automations we have set up in our house using Samsung SmartThings and Alexa. Hopefully, sharing my list will give someone else an idea for their home. I plan to add to this list over time and Iwrote a Smart Home Products article about the hardware that enables this list.

One of my favorite quotes is from the introduction of Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team : "If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time." I didn't fully understand or appreciate that saying until my daughters started rowing in high school. Just like rowing, for an organization to be successful, it takes hard work, teamwork, and communication.

I just finished reading Robert Iger's The Ride of a Lifetime that shares his career's story of rising through ABC and eventually becoming the CEO of Disney. It's a chronological overview of his 22 years at ABC and 23 years at Disney, with the last 14 being CEO of Disney and provides great leadership principles.