I’d hardly noticed it. It was so quiet. It was a small voice in my head that kept telling me I couldn’t fix my oven door. It’s silly. I’m an engineer. I should be confident in my intellectual ability to figure out how an oven door works and in my mechanical ability to fix it. […]
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” – Edward deBono
As I ease back in to blogging let’s all get our engines going with some link fuel. Here are the videos that my friends and followers are sending my way. Enjoy the thoughts they provoke. CAPT David Marquet’s “Greatness” [Thanks to so many of you there are too many to name!] Introducing ODIM: Outcomes, Decisions,
I’m back to blogging! Hooray! It’s been a long time since I’ve had a moment to sit down and share with you the thoughts bouncing around in my head. I hope you’ve missed me. I’ve missed you. Let’s start this new blogging momentum with a video: Upcycling Your Change. This is the presentation I gave
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Forgive me my lack of posting throughout this pregnancy, and especially now. I’ve been temporarily inconvenienced by one of my late pregnancy symptoms: terribly swollen hands. The swelling makes typing painful and too much typing causes my fingers to go numb. Therefore, I’m putting my self on keystroke rest until little Henry arrives and the
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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” – Edward Everett Hale Today I had the honor of watching my great friend and fearless Vice President, Rebekah Uhtoff, recognized as a Kitsap
Whew! That sums up an exciting week with the great organizers, attendees, and fellow presenters at AgileIntel2014. From Tuesday through Friday, I was lucky enough to teach, keynote, facilitate, and participate in a few panels and change agent conversations. I debuted a new class, Change Agent Essentials, a four-hour course summarizing the key lessons I’ve
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This is the post where I admit that my seemingly inexhaustible energy is actually exhaustible. You’ve probably assumed as much if you’ve followed this blog the past several months. I’ve been nearly non-existent as a blogger. I have been busy in other ways though (news to be announced soon). To tide you over until I’m
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This is a post for all the Guiding Coalition alumni. I’m pleased to announce the launch of John Kotter’s newest book, Accelerate. Accelerate is our book. It tells our story. This is a book about pioneers, for pioneers.” – John Kotter, Accelerate That is the first line of the book and it says a lot.
Today I recharged my batteries with a few great articles by and videos about Admiral H. G. Rickover, my favorite change agent. First, I’ll share a clip out of his speech, “Thoughts on Man’s Purpose in Life,” given to various audiences over several years (a benefit of the pre-Internet age). The task of finding a
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