Do you have to wait for your organization’s values to change before you can live yours? No. If you believe that wasteful processes must be redesigned, then redesign them. If you know that team start-up can move faster, then create a faster start-up method. If you trust in people, then give them the freedom to […]
Wow! What a busy day…launched GC Drive week training, kept my voice going throughout the day (something that was not a given before the day began) and had great participation from the class all day. Then I took a quick trip to Seattle to meet up with like thinkers (Michael Cheveldave, Hilbert Robinson, Steve Holt,
I think what I’m offering here at engine-for-change.com are many posts, containing actionable advice that you can immediately apply in your organization. I hope that’s what sets this blog apart from others you read. Many other blogs offer you vague suggestions assuming you will immediately take the vague advice to heart and act because they,
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Where do you get your energy to drive change? Did you find an issue you were passionate about and did the energy just well up inside you? Did a friend talk to you about an issue they were passionate about, and did that conversation spark your fire? Did your boss tell you a story about
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I read an article that said happiness comes from outside circumstances and joy comes from within. If that’s true, then shouldn’t we be focusing less on being happy with our work and more on being joyful about it? Joy can’t be stolen away by the bad days, attitudes, people, and situations that swirl around us.
Some people follow Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Others insist on David Allen’s Getting Things Done. Others still file in piles and hope they have what they need. I subscribe to a mix of all three (and others), ebbing and flowing from a heightened state of organization euphoria to lows of a
We’ve been sold a lie. The lie is that organizations (or children) can and should be perfect. In organizations, this need for perfection induces people to run from anything labeled failure. In children, it induces them to run from any new learning that they may not get right on the first try. So few of
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Please stop ordering wide groups of people to attend training classes. You’re making it easier on you as an implementer when you insist on treating all the people the same, but you’re destroying a grand opportunity to learn a lot about the people of the group and to serve them better. Wrapped up in that
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Stuck with a problem you can’t solve? Read something. Sit with the thoughts your reading provides you. Then act. It really is a simple recipe. If you want some hints of good reads for your type of problem, just e-mail me or post a comment. I and the other readers can surely help you out.
