Now for a new feature: “Your Thoughts?” I’ll post something someone short and ask you for your thoughts. As they are your thoughts, anything goes. This is a good place to practice commenting in public. I’d venture a guess that if you can’t comment on your own thoughts to strangers on a blog, you’re probably […]
For years I’ve carried around a business card with John Kotter’s emotions that work for and against change written on the back of it. Pulling out the card and reading it helped me build a habit of recognizing when I was adding to or robbing from the change I was trying to drive. Because of
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Are you looking for ways to get more done without working longer hours? What if you could multiply one hour of work into 10, 100 or even 1,000 or more? If you’ve ever read a blog (since you’re reading this I think it’s safe to assume you have), or read a book, or watched a
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In my non-free time I run a Guiding Coalition. It’s a group of 35 people, from all levels of the organization, committed to bringing about the future of the organization through our own initiative. Those 35 people form four teams with 13 sub-teams, made up of more than 250 members. The Guiding Coalition is based
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Have you ever caught yourself in a meeting thinking, “How does that guy know about that and I don’t?” Have you ever toured a new place and wondered, “Why didn’t my boss show me this sooner?” Have you ever left training saying, “Why didn’t the company send us to this years ago?” If you’ve had
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There are more colors in nature than in any size box of crayons. Yet, with a box of eight crayons, including one crayon called Blue, you can show an ocean or a sky, a naval officer’s uniform or a Blue Angels jet. But, sometimes one blue crayon isn’t enough. You need more variety of blues
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I took Cognitive Edge up on their offer to be a guest blogger. You’ll find my Cargo Cult post again there.
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Seth Godin, always adding sensible levity to a situation, asks bureaucrats to put a name on every policy. And, why not? Like Godin says, in small companies, you can find the owner, or the one woman in the marketing department. But, in an organization of 10,000 or 25,000, finding who wrote a document is harder,
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The Heath brothers (Chip and Dan) will soon have a new book out, Switch (due out February 16). Here’s a quick, new years resolution-themed look at their new book. I’m still working my way through their last book, Made to Stick.
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Seth Godin shares the: Evolution of every medium Technicians who invented it, run it Technicians with taste, leverage it Artists take over from the technicians MBAs take over from the artists Bureaucrats drive the medium to banality While I agree this evolution is typical, it isn’t the end. I’ve seen an evolution go the other
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