Sometimes I learn interesting things because I’m married to a lawyer. One of the interesting things I’ve learned is that in some criminal cases a lawyer must prove the defendant did the crime and had a guilty mind (in Latin, their mens rea). Hence, a defendant can plead not guilty by reason of insanity not […]
Tomorrow I’ll have the privilege to facilitate a team through a strengths discussion. I’m playing to my strengths when I’m talking a group through realizing that they have powerful strengths which they so desperately need to leverage for their own sakes and for the sake of their organizations. As I drove home today, my mind
Just in case you thought I was making all this “driving change” stuff up, check out this quote from Dale Carnegie’s 1936 hit, How to Win Friends and Influence People, If a man’s heart is rankling with discord and ill feeling toward you, you can’t win him to your way of thinking with all the
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It’s hard to believe I’ve been blogging at Engine for Change for ten months already. In honor of those ten months, here are my favorite five posts. Which posts make your top five? Driving Change versus Driving People to Change Cargo Cult with video When One Blue Crayon Isn’t Enough One Man Show Cassandra Coming
Seth Godin writes in a post titled, “Change and its constituents,” (subtitled: there are two and both are a problem) that people in an organization are broken up into two groups, People who fear they will be hurt by a change speak up immediately, loudly and without regard for the odds or reality. People who
I found this tonight in my grandmother’s old church cookbook, a possession I treasure in so many ways: Good humor makes all things tolerable.” Life happens. How you respond to life makes all the difference. Laugh a little. It’ll help.
In 2004, my husband set out to climb Mount Saint Helens. He had to drive to base camp, route find through a boulder field and trudge through ash fields of pumice as deep as sand on dunes all the while rising toward the peak at a staggering angle. Maybe he wanted to give up along
When you’re driving change, you don’t get to order people out onto a path you’ve never been on. You must go first. Going first can be scary, but it can also can be the best opportunity you’ve ever had to set the example. You’re out in front, all alone and everyone is watching. Most people
You will never get to where you want to be unless you head in that direction.” – Unknown Typically, when people are implementing change they feel confident about the destination they’ve chosen, but they seem quite awful at heading in that direction. My observation is that they struggle with heading in that direction because they’ve
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People driving change accomplish a lot but often receive little personal acclaim for their work. Tonight, the acclaim was monumental. It was my honor to be among a group of six Guiding Coalition alumni recognized as Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty. These six were recognized for much more than just their Guiding Coalition
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