Make time to process new ideas during your week. Too often we’re lured into thinking only in small chunks: the time between conflicting statements in a meeting, the length of a candidates sound bite or a blog post, the millisecond while you read a text. If some thought snags on your brain and you know […]
Why write something new when something well said before is worth sharing? Enjoy “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and ponder your purpose in life. Were you meant to drive change? Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!– For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are
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I wish employees could, in more companies, talk back a little bit more to their management. I wish middle managers could, in more organizations, talk back a little bit more to their executives. I wish executives could, in more global organizations, talk back a little bit more to their boards. Why? Because if they could,
I’m not asking you when was the last time you read something new. You obviously read blogs or you wouldn’t be reading this. Blog reading isn’t necessarily learning. Learning to me implies some retention for reuse at a later moment. How many blog posts do you retain and then refer back to in a new
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Last year I published a set of posts called the 2010 Leaders Series. For all you new Engine For Change readers and recent additions to the Guiding Coalition, here’s a rundown of the posts you missed. The posts cover a range of topics change leaders should know about, all with a driving change perspective. Feel
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It is much easier to be a sheep and stick to doing only those jobs that are in your official job description or that your boss has directly asked you to do. Some days it is hard to live outside the fences, hard to figure out for yourself how to solve a problem you don’t
I think there is a flaw with traditional brainstorming. Often, the brainstorming process demands that you throw out whatever is in your head, regardless of whether you are passionate about the issue or not. Since the fuel to sustain you and others through a difficult change is passion to see the vision become reality, why
It may not be an appetizing way to say it, but I’m still trying to digest all that I heard, saw and discussed during last week’s Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) conference. I can’t yet decide where to start learning more, where to first apply the new information I gathered, and where and
If you hope to understand what makes driving change work so well, there are some authors that you should know. You could start with John Kotter. His Leading Change gives us the 8-step process, the antidote to the failed change behaviors too many companies continue to employ. My favorite Kotter books are Sense of Urgency
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There are some days where it seems I’m playing against my strengths all day. Those days hurt. I find comfort in reminding myself that tomorrow doesn’t have to be like today, and then I go to bed. What do you do to cope with a bad day? How do you recharge yourself?
