I think what I’m offering here at engine-for-change.com are many posts, containing actionable advice that you can immediately apply in your organization. I hope that’s what sets this blog apart from others you read. Many other blogs offer you vague suggestions assuming you will immediately take the vague advice to heart and act because they, […]
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Suspending assumptions…meaning to figuratively imagine your assumption dangling before you like a scarf dancing in a light breeze. Can you picture it? Imagine the assumption: Only senior leaders have the organizational knowledge necessary to make real change. Watch it dancing before you. Now, can you picture it falling from your grasp? Why can’t you lead
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Via non trita zaginiis traditionis suffocata est; non timere secare (The untrodden path is choked by the weeds of tradition. Be not afraid to cut through.)” I love these words and I love the story behind them too. The words, “be not afraid,” remind me of a favorite Theodore Roosevelt quote which says, “There were
Confidence (noun) – belief in oneself and one’s powers and abilities. Can I make you have confidence in yourself? No. Can I give you confidence in yourself? No. I can have confidence in you (i.e., full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing), but even that won’t necessarily dictate
Where do you get your energy to drive change? Did you find an issue you were passionate about and did the energy just well up inside you? Did a friend talk to you about an issue they were passionate about, and did that conversation spark your fire? Did your boss tell you a story about
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.” – Carl Sagan
I read an article that said happiness comes from outside circumstances and joy comes from within. If that’s true, then shouldn’t we be focusing less on being happy with our work and more on being joyful about it? Joy can’t be stolen away by the bad days, attitudes, people, and situations that swirl around us.
Hear ye. Hear ye. I’m ordering myself to take a few week long blogging vacation. While I’m gone, you can dig through the archives, dive into the categories (may I recommend A Rant!), read other blogs, or go on vacation too. Choose your own adventure. It’s entirely up to you. I’ll see ya when I
Wordle.net is a great site that allows you to use any text or url to create a word pictures to sense the not-so-hidden patterns in your language. You can use this to reveal the common words your organization relies on to carry your essential messages. I built 45 of these today for another project and
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I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem.” Often times we are part of the problem in the very systems that we wish would change. If your boss never implements your ideas, ask yourself how many of your own ideas you’ve tried to implement.
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