Each person learns differently, so I know poking around the old posts on this site might not be for you. Why not learn more about Driving Change via several videos captured over the past two years? My April K. Mills YouTube channel has links to many of the videos of my speeches from the past two […]
My friends in the nuclear power program always liked to pick on me because of my intellectual love affair with the nuclear navy’s founder, Admiral H. G. Rickover. Though I would fain hurt feelings during their sessions of teasing, I really didn’t mind. I have many people who I intellectually adore, Rickover chief among them
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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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Check out this featured case study at Kotter International’s website: Creating an Engine for Change. There’s even a video of Dennis Goin and I talking about driving change with a network in a command-and-control hierarchy. As my husband says, I am one of those weird people who loves her job. I hope that shows in
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I’m excited to share with you a recent video from John Kotter describing his Accelerate model and why it is desperately needed today. I’ve been privileged to lead a transformational change group leveraging this model for the past six years. It works. It’s amazing. I’m glad the world is finally getting a chance to see
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A good friend told me a story about the fish who starves among a tank full of food and I had to search out the video to share it with you. Too often we believe that we can’t change our organizations, our communities, or our world because we’ve tried and tried and tried and tried
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It’s taken me a while, but I finally got the SEASPIN videos ready for you to view. Thanks to Hilbert for taping the session and loading the videos for me. I like to think I’m tough enough to take any feedback you have on my presentation. (We’ll see if I’m self-deluded). Please do post
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The rules of improv are simple: 1. Always agree with and add to the last person’s statement. “Yes, and…” 2. Always make the other people look good. If you’ve watched a comedy improv troupe in action, you know improv results are always unexpected and hilarious. If you apply those same improv rules to your team
