Today I read a story about Gallup’s new book about the quest for personal happiness, Well Being: The Five Essential Elements. In the book, Tom Rath and James K. Harter share Gallup’s worldwide research on personal wellbeing, reducing the extensive data to five broad categories: Career Wellbeing Social Wellbeing Financial Wellbeing Physical Wellbeing Community Wellbeing […]
Tim Sanders, in his post, “The problem with devil’s advocates” highlights an important feature of an idea generating, change driving organizational culture: few devil’s advocates. With one visit to a work group I could tell you if they are capable of driving change or if they are stuck. One of the first things I look
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I’ll admit I’m a fan of Covey’s 7 habits. I’m a fan for two reasons, 1) the habits seem to work as advertised and 2) most people have heard of the 7 habits, making the habits a ready language for discussing personal and organizational improvements. Do you know the 7 habits? If you don’t, or
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Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson What can you achieve with your enthusiasm and your willingness to drive change? Just imagine!
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Today I’m excited to post my review of Andrea Shapiro’s second edition of Creating Contagious Commitment. In 2005 I started my journey through organizational change, with the first edition of Andrea Shapiro’s Creating Contagious Commitment: Applying the Tipping Point to Organizational Change as my implementer’s guide to successful change. Since 2005 I’ve learned a lot of
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Greetings from beautiful Chesapeake, VA. While on location posting may be light. But, not to disappoint, here is the quote of the week. You may have seen this attributed to Mother Teresa, but she borrowed it from Kent M. Keith in some form. Regardless, it is beautiful, and here it is: People are often unreasonable,
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I’m not trying to make this a Seth Godin tribute blog; really I’m not. But then Rogue Polymath tweeted about Amber Naslund’s Indispensable vs Irreplaceable post. She mixes two of my favorites–new terms and Godin’s Linchpin–so I can’t resist sharing her post with you. Amber writes: Being indispensable is about delivering massive impact no matter
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I awoke to find that Seth Godin has blogged about the coming decline in higher education, when only the other day, I had suggested to a friend (based on my integration of lessons I’d learned reading Seth Godin’s book Linchpin) that she consider not getting a master degree in favor of getting more education. Funny
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Not all changes take a decade, but some do. Today, Maria Finch (a thoroughly amazing woman) and I accepted YWCA Women of Achievement Awards for our work as Child Care Network co-leads. What’s that mean? We were the 2009 leaders of a fabulous team of women and men committed to expanded child care in our
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Today, I got into a disagreement over a blog post. In the blog post, the author offers one way to move the people of an organization from stopped-and-waiting toward innovating-and-creating. My response to the blog post was swift: That won’t work. That: The actions (and cautions) the author prescribes. Won’t work: Will not produce the
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