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Change Leadership Secret – 45 – Marathons Are Aerobic
Change Leadership — Secret # 45 Marathons Are Aerobic Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run. —Rudyard Kipling What I Need to Know There is a bias called the “sustainability bias,” whereby a person comes to believe that extreme performance can be sustained, rather than regressing to the normal, sustainable level. […]
Change Leadership Secret – 44 – Be Careful Where You Cast Your Anchor
Change Leadership — Secret # 44 Be Careful Where You Cast Your Anchor To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. —Oliver Wendell Holmes What I Need to Know “Anchoring” is the cognitive bias whereby people are overly influenced […]
Change Leadership Secret – 43 – Beware of False Consensus
Change Leadership — Secret # 43 Beware of False Consensus To a large degree reality is whatever the people who are around at the time agree to. —Milton H. Miller What I Need to Know “False consensus” is a tendency to assume that other people share the same views. Maybe you assume they share your […]
Change Leadership Secret – 42 – Win With Mere Exposure
Change Leadership — Secret # 42 Win With Mere Exposure Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. —Nikki Giovanni What I Need to Know People have an incredible preference for items and situations that are familiar. People actually prefer to suffer with something familiar than change […]
Change Leadership Secret – 41 – Forget The Wishful Thinking
Change Leadership — Secret # 41 Forget The Wishful Thinking A goal without a plan is just a wish. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry What I Need to Know The cognitive bias called “wishful thinking” is the tendency to consider only the data that reinforces your desired views and reject data that negates them. I am astounded […]
Change Leadership Secret – 40 – Do A Reality Check
Change Leadership — Secret # 40 Do A reality Check Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch. —Lily Tomlin What I Need to Know When characterizing a person’s change response, the change leader must be aware of differing views of reality. When Lewin described his concepts of forces and life space, he stipulated that […]
Change Leadership Secret – 39 – Stay Away from Turtles
Change Leadership — Secret # 39 Stay Away from Turtles It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to stick to it. —George Christoph Lichtenberg What I Need to Know The sixth change type is the “Turtle.” The Turtle is the other neurotic change type. The Turtle is plagued by anxieties, perhaps second […]
Change Leadership Secret – 38 – Comfort The Mules
Change Leadership — Secret # 38 Comfort The Mules Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. —H. G. Wells What I Need to Know The fifth change-type is the “Mule.” The Mule is reluctant to change. The Mule may have slightly more anxieties than the Chameleon, but like the Chameleon, the Mule […]
Change Leadership Secret – 37 – Count On The Beavers
Change Leadership — Secret # 37 Count On The Beavers Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. —Napoleon Hill What I Need to Know The fourth change-type is the “Beaver.” The Beaver is the most stable of all of the change types. The Beaver stays close to home (i.e., the current situation) […]
Change Leadership Secret – 35 – Follow The Chameleons
Change Leadership — Secret # 35 Follow The Chameleons Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. —Nolan Ryan What I Need to Know The second change-type is the “Chameleon.” The Chameleon is an “early adopter” of […]
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