Today I read a joyous e-mail. In the e-mail, a team lead celebrated a hard-fought-for success and thanked the team members who helped the team win. For years to come, that team lead will remember this win. That’s the great part about capturing and celebrating your wins; they stick with you. What’s your favorite driving […]
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Have you ever heard of the word “voluntold”? It’s a combination of volunteer and told. It typically means your boss ordered you to serve on a committee that you never would have chosen to serve with if you were given the choice. Unwords.com lists the definition as: 1. (v.) When one has been volunteered for
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I’ve started a list of things change implementers (that’s you) can learn from the hit TV show, The Biggest Loser. Seek out volunteers. Ask for permission to push these volunteers to their limits. Live the lifestyle you recommend. Allow people to quit. Praise liberally. Keep the goal in sight. Measure your progress often and publicly.
I’m going to join Daniel Pink, blogger and author of Drive, in letting you know how much fun it is to play with Google Lab’s new Books Ngram Viewer. The Ngram Viewer allows you to search for key words among Google’s archived books from 1800 to 2008. Pink compared the rates that the following words
If I’ve told you once I’ve told you a hundred times (yes, that’s my line this week): watch for opportunities everywhere to drive change. If you do, amazing things will happen. This has been an action packed week, filled with opportunity after opportunity to create powerful, positive change and my big day, Friday, hasn’t even
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It’s hard to believe I’ve been blogging at Engine for Change for ten months already. In honor of those ten months, here are my favorite five posts. Which posts make your top five? Driving Change versus Driving People to Change Cargo Cult with video When One Blue Crayon Isn’t Enough One Man Show Cassandra Coming
Friday I brought in a few gifts to work, specifically books that screamed out at me that they must be delivered to several of my friends. I could tell they were unexpected by the recipients and brought a bit of joy to their day. Always one for perfect timing, I found this post about gifts
I’ve been stringing together weeks of adventures. Last week I was at a Naval Postgraduate School class in Monterey, California. For the next several weeks I’ll be road tripping through Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin then back through Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Washington. While I’m gone, where will you be? I
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Driving change is about choosing a change for yourself and clearing the obstacles for others to internally choose the change too. In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan introduce us to the concept of a fast zebra: someone who, “can quickly absorb information, adapt to new challenges, and get
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When you’re eating a fancy, many course meal and you’re offered sorbet, you’re being offered a palate cleanser. A palate cleanser is a food used in the middle of the meal to remove lingering flavors from the mouth so that the next course may be enjoyed from a fresh perspective. When you’re driving your way
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