Quote of the Week

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” – John F. Kennedy

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh

How many times have you had a whole new set of obstacles appear in front of you just when you thought you had a change completed in your organization? Too many times to count? Me too. At those moments you may have felt like sitting down and giving up or turning around and going back

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way–by rote or something.  Their knowledge is so fragile!” – Richard Feynman You can win sometimes by mimicking the driving change behaviors, but you’ll never be truly successful.  If you want to win almost every time, study

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal”  Friedrich Nietzsche

But lots of success. There was no training then! And all I could do was learn by experience. And Christ what an experience. The plaque says, ‘L. Logue, Speech Defects’. No Dr., no letters after my name. Lock me in the Tower.” – Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) in The King’s Speech These lines of dialogue

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein As you look toward this week, don’t be disheartened by those around you still clinging to driving people to change. Driving people to change: using some coercion (e.g., orders, fear of negative consequences, removal of positive consequences) to externally compel someone to

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – T. Vince Lombardi In organizations I too often hear the stories of individuals (ladder climbers, attention seekers) versus the team or the organization.  These individuals too often have convinced all the

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.” – Ronald Reagan Do you ever feel like you don’t have the right to question? Are you waiting for someone