A new rallying cry
Seth Godin has provided all of us driving change with a new rallying cry, Our normal approach is useless here!” Unite with me and let’s drive change together!
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light” – Albert Schweitzer Sparkle bright as you drive change. There are those around you flickering. Be the example and transform them into a flame too. We all can
Behave yourself
They say actions speak louder than words. That’s so true when you’re driving change and trying to set yourself apart from the pack of people still driving others to change. When you’re driving change you must practice and practice and practice the driving change behaviors until it seems foolish to do anything else (e.g., driving
Refresher 2
Can you fail less? Do you fear success? Just picture it! Do what you can to live the emotions that drive change, and though those around you are mired in the emotions that stall change, you will succeed. Something new: I want to go on the record and say that until today I’d never heard,
Find Your Way Out
I love the internet. Whenever I’ve had a rough day, I type in a search term that somehow describes what I’m feeling and the funniest stuff pops up. Tonight I decided to look up “How to Find Your Way Out of Wet Paper Bag,” and I actually found a post telling me what to
Seldom forgiven
People will often forgive you for being wrong when they are right; they will seldom forgive you for being right where they are wrong.” – Peter Kreeft, Philosophy 101 by Socrates I speak from experience when I say that it will do you no good to point out to people how foolish they’ve been by
Opportunities Taken
Opportunities are those moments when you are presented with a choice, subtle or not, and you can 1) choose to take the opportunity, 2) choose to not take the opportunity, or 3) not choose and lose the opportunity. In Andrea Shapiro’s Tipping Point model, contact with advocates (e.g., the number and quality of times when
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The Feedback Hook
Whenever you’re working at an event, for work, for your kids PTA, for whatever and someone who hasn’t done any of the work for the event decides to come up and tell you all the things you could have done better, here’s a little trick I call the feedback hook you can use that leverages
Sometimes
An idea is not true merely because it occurs to us or because we wish it to be true; sometimes we are wrong.” – David Harriman, The Logical Leap Admit what you know. Admit what you don’t know. Be ready for someone to bring you something you’ve never thought of. That’s okay. As one of
Be Your Sun
Tonight I read to my children from a collection of Aesop’s fables. We ended the night by reading, The North Wind and the Sun. If you’re not familiar with this fable, here’s how it goes (borrowing from wikipedia): The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along
