Andrew Mason via Compfight A bad myth rampant in our organizations is the myth that there is no set-up time to intellectual work. We schedule meetings on disparate topics in one hour chunks back to back and somehow think we are going to get our best thinking. Or, worse, we know we won’t get our
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Lali Masriera via Compfight I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby In this holiday season where pleasing others is center stage, please accept my permission to not please everyone. Some people just won’t get what you are trying to do with your
Juan Lois via Compfight I love idioms. Idioms are words that have a figurative meaning beyond their literal meaning. Idioms are terrible traps for people trying to learn the language, because their real meaning cannot be found in the words you are reading. One of my favorite English idioms is sacred cows. According to the
This post is simple. If you want people to remember the message of your presentation, create a handout. Last week at SEASPIN, one of the attendees commented on how rare and wonderful the handout was. (I may be paraphrasing, but–hey–it’s my blog.) Today I enjoyed the sound of rustling papers echoing across a full auditorium
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”- C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man In
Quickly, before I burst off to work this morning, I thought I would pop up some miscellaneous content that came up as part of last night’s presentation or through other channels this morning. Thanks to Jeff Smith from SEASPIN for coordinating my presentation. It was a fun, fabulous night. We’ll see if anyone chases me
I’m all set for my SEASPIN presentation on Tuesday night. If you’ll be attending SEASPIN and want to check out the presentation and handout early, feel free. I love people who prepare. For those of you who can’t join us, enjoy the slides and handout and be sure to post your comments and questions.
Organizations simply don’t change unless the people in them change.” – Andrea Shapiro, Creating Contagious Commitment True. If you want your organization to change, why not change yourself first? It’s the only change you truly control. Go first. Bernat Casero via Compfight
Engine for Change launched on 28 December 2009 with a short welcoming post. Since then I’ve written more than 470 posts and Engine-for-Change.com has received more than 122,000 site visits. I can only imagine what the next three years will hold for all of us who are driving change in a world that seems to
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Ernest via Compfight If you’re local to the Seattle area and you want to check out a new presentation I’m putting together, then join me and the members of the Seattle and Eastside Area Software Process Improvement Network (or SeaSpin for short) at their December 4th meeting in Bothell. The presentation is titled “Engine for
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