A good friend told me a story about the fish who starves among a tank full of food and I had to search out the video to share it with you. Too often we believe that we can’t change our organizations, our communities, or our world because we’ve tried and tried and tried and tried
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What are you willfully blind to in your organization? Can you afford to stay that way?
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt
I’m struck by how many times in any given week I encounter people who want a better outcome for themselves, their organization, or their community but have assumed because the outcome isn’t present today that it isn’t even possible. Why is that? Why are we so willing to settle for wishing for better assuming it
Here’s a test of your driving change skills: Imagine you’re in a meeting. A team member asks for help from anyone on the team. Many team members lean back in their chairs and begin grilling the other member on why he hasn’t solved the problem without asking for help. Do you join them in their
You can date the evolving life of the mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.” – Mary McCarthy
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One of life’s joys is to spend a day or days sharing big thoughts and great conversations with good friends. Enjoy those moments whenever you can. Allow those moments to wash away all the residue of corporate speak and hollow thought. Be renewed. Ian Sane via Compfight
Gandhi either said, Be the change you want to see in the world.” or Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Either way he called people unhappy with the status quo to act. He challenged them not to start with demands for other people to change their behavior. He challenged them (and
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
