Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo […]
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Over the past year or so I’ve worked a lot with Cognitive Edge‘s complexity theory facilitation methods and through that work, a group of people and I have seeded into our organization the term: safe-to-fail. It means creating an experiment to test the organizational response to a certain intervention (e.g.,, a new program, policy or
In the rush of the world around you, it is easy to get caught up in all the activity that is masquerading as deliberate action. It takes practice to keep yourself calm amidst the storm. It takes courage to push past the confusion and find a way forward. It takes heart to continue to believe
Rather than pick just one quote of the week, why not try several previous quotes of the week that all encourage us to get moving and bring about the change we want to see in the world. This is going to be a fantastic and challenging week. I’m ready to get started. How about you?
I’ve been thinking deeper about how to truly do something ever since I posted last week about Colonel John Boyd’s be someone or do something test, To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That’s when you have to make a decision. To be or to do?” –
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.” – T. S. Eliot
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This week, as I watched my friends, who work throughout the Department of Defense, begin their administrative furlough days–something I never expected would happen to Department of Defense employees who have a vital mission to do–I’m reminded of former Secretary of Defense Gates’ speeches to young officers at the Air Force Academy and Naval Academy.
We are in control of much less than we think we are. Yet, we beat ourselves up when things don’t go as we expected. How silly! I say we give ourselves a little bit of grace and embrace the uncertainty. No one knows for sure what will happen today. That means today has the potential
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi Choose to get to do something important for yourself, your organization, or your community this week and you’ll feel that river moving in you too. Why not try?
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The last line of the Declaration of Independence reads, And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” People who change the world do more than click “like” on Facebook. People who are
