In my Change Agent Essentials classes I’m often asked how to quickly eliminate people’s resistance to change. Here’s the simple method I offer, after making sure the person asking first clearly understands the importance of driving change not driving people. I call this method 5 Steps to Change Perspectives & Dissolve Resistance. Step 1: Invite all the […]
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Thanks to Kendall Lott for producing a great series of podcasts titled, “Project Manager Point of View (PM-POV).” Thanks to PMIWDC for hosting them. Thanks to Michael Hannan for introducing me to Kendall and the podcasts. If you’re looking for thought-provoking, brilliantly produced, quick podcasts to get your creative project manager ideas flowing, check out
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If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times, “I can’t afford to attend.” That’s the first thing I hear when I ask people, “Will you join me at Accelerate Results 2016?” People from a wide range of organizations and industries all respond the same. Now, most of these people don’t even know
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When are you going to write your book?” – Bob Steinmetz Every time I talk to him, my friend Bob asks me the same question. Over the years my answer has evolved from, “Someday,” to “Soon,” to “Maybe next month.” I’m happy to announce today that my answer is, “Now.” I started writing my book
Each person learns differently, so I know poking around the old posts on this site might not be for you. Why not learn more about Driving Change via several videos captured over the past two years? My April K. Mills YouTube channel has links to many of the videos of my speeches from the past two
In our modern world, organizations are routinely bending nature to their will for our benefit. Yet, this control doesn’t transfer to the routines of organizational life. We plan project portfolios using metrics we know aren’t effective, conduct annual performance appraisals that achieve little, and spend months to fill vacancies even though candidates are readily available. We can
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My friends in the nuclear power program always liked to pick on me because of my intellectual love affair with the nuclear navy’s founder, Admiral H. G. Rickover. Though I would fain hurt feelings during their sessions of teasing, I really didn’t mind. I have many people who I intellectually adore, Rickover chief among them
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There is…an enormous reservoir of relatively untapped genius–that is, the capacity for exceptional accomplishment–which existing systems of motivation have failed to reach.” – Saul Gellerman, Management by Motivation (1968, page 204) In June 2014 in London at what is lovingly called Gilbfest, I had the privilege to give a presentation based on my work with
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For the first time in six years, Engine For Change has a new look. I’m doing some site maintenance in advance of what I’m hoping will be a busy 2016 of posting. Thank you to all of you who’ve been with me since this blog began. Welcome to all new readers. I’ll work hard to
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