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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This blog is filled with my stories, but today I had the opportunity to post two other people’s stories about working with our Guiding Coalition. We’re now taking applications for our next cycle and I’d asked them to share what they’ve learned, experienced and gained from their time with the Guiding Coalition. Cheerfully, as I
A while back I posted the link to a free audio copy of Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright’s book, Tribal Leadership. They describe the book as: Every company, indeed, every organization, is a tribe, or if it’s large enough, a network of tribes—groups of twenty to 150 people in which everyone knows everyone
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Seth Godin says, It’s easier to teach compliance than initiative. Compliance is simple to measure, simple to test for and simple to teach. Punish non-compliance, reward obedience and repeat. Initiative is very difficult to teach to 28 students in a quiet classroom. It’s difficult to brag about in a school board meeting. And it’s a
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Whether you read the Air Force Academy or Naval Academy versions of the speech, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is asking cadets and midshipmen to drive change. In his remarks, Secretary Gates encouraged our future military leaders to: Learn from the experiences and the setbacks of the past; Be open to ideas and inspiration from
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In the 1956 preface to his 1944 class, Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek made this comment: But there are many ways in which we can work toward the same goal, and in the present state of opinion there is some danger that our impatience for quick results may lead us to choose instruments which, though
Here’s my hypothesis: Most people have never seen–let alone been a part of–driving change. If that is true, then when you try to explain driving change only with words (instead of with pictures and vivid emotions) you’d be met with a sea of lost and confused looks. Yep; the sea of lost looks is what
A dear friend sent me this quote today: You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, and how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou Your thoughts?
Want to see what this Guiding Coalition I’ve been mentioning is all about? Check out the five-part video posted at this link on the PSNS & IMF On the Waterfront Facebook fan page.
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Today at Seth Godin’s blog, under the title “Accepting Limits”: It’s absurd to look at a three year old toddler and say, “this kid can’t read or do math or even string together a coherent paragraph. He’s a dolt and he’s never going to amount to anything.” No, we don’t say that because we know
