Today I’m excited to post my review of Andrea Shapiro’s second edition of Creating Contagious Commitment. In 2005 I started my journey through organizational change, with the first edition of Andrea Shapiro’s Creating Contagious Commitment: Applying the Tipping Point to Organizational Change as my implementer’s guide to successful change. Since 2005 I’ve learned a lot of […]
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Greetings from beautiful Chesapeake, VA. While on location posting may be light. But, not to disappoint, here is the quote of the week. You may have seen this attributed to Mother Teresa, but she borrowed it from Kent M. Keith in some form. Regardless, it is beautiful, and here it is: People are often unreasonable,
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I’m not trying to make this a Seth Godin tribute blog; really I’m not. But then Rogue Polymath tweeted about Amber Naslund’s Indispensable vs Irreplaceable post. She mixes two of my favorites–new terms and Godin’s Linchpin–so I can’t resist sharing her post with you. Amber writes: Being indispensable is about delivering massive impact no matter
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I awoke to find that Seth Godin has blogged about the coming decline in higher education, when only the other day, I had suggested to a friend (based on my integration of lessons I’d learned reading Seth Godin’s book Linchpin) that she consider not getting a master degree in favor of getting more education. Funny
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Not all changes take a decade, but some do. Today, Maria Finch (a thoroughly amazing woman) and I accepted YWCA Women of Achievement Awards for our work as Child Care Network co-leads. What’s that mean? We were the 2009 leaders of a fabulous team of women and men committed to expanded child care in our
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Today, I got into a disagreement over a blog post. In the blog post, the author offers one way to move the people of an organization from stopped-and-waiting toward innovating-and-creating. My response to the blog post was swift: That won’t work. That: The actions (and cautions) the author prescribes. Won’t work: Will not produce the
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The world will never starve for wonder; only for want of wonder.” – G. K. Chesterton Ever wondered about the family tree of a pencil? Enjoy this read, “I, Pencil.”
I’d written a blog post and filed it away, only to have the topic treated better in a newsletter article I read this weekend. First, I offer you my blog post, then a re-post of the newsletter article. Regardless which version gets the thought across to you, you’ll appreciate the idea if you’re driving change.
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When you’re eating a fancy, many course meal and you’re offered sorbet, you’re being offered a palate cleanser. A palate cleanser is a food used in the middle of the meal to remove lingering flavors from the mouth so that the next course may be enjoyed from a fresh perspective. When you’re driving your way
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I’ve scrawled quotes on piles of index cards over the years. Nearly every card has the quote plus the quote’s author, the book I got the quote from, and the page number the quote is featured on. Note that I said nearly every card. Why? Well, because this week’s quote comes from a card with
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