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Change Leadership Secret – 87 – Develop Your Change Team
Change Leadership — Secret # 87 Develop Your Change Team It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry S. Truman What I Need to Know In traditional solution-oriented selling, there is the concept of a sponsor. The sponsor is someone who believes your solution is the […]
Change Leadership Secret – 86 – Always Have Options
Change Leadership — Secret # 86 Always Have Options On the human chessboard, all moves are possible. —Miriam Schiff What I Need to Know If you are committed solely to one course of action, you will eventually perish. Even the smallest pebble will trip you up. For example, modern automobiles have rubber tires and shock […]
Change Leadership Secret – 85 – Perseverance Wins
Change Leadership — Secret # 85 Perseverance Wins Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. —Samuel Johnson What I Need to Know All the biggest achievements of mankind have required perseverance that extended over decades. The Panama Canal, which lifts large freight-carrying boats over forty-eight miles of land between the Pacific and […]
Change Leadership Secret – 84 – Two Roots of Evil & Failure
Change Leadership — Secret # 84 Two Roots of Evil & Failure Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more. —Bob Nelson What I Need to Know In the manufacturing and engineering worlds when something goes wrong, people try to understand why, so it can be fixed. The goal is to start with the symptom of […]
Change Leadership Secret – 83 – Big Success = Big Risk
Change Leadership — Secret # 83 Big Success = Big Risk I believe that one of life’s biggest risks is never daring to risk. —Oprah Winfrey What I Need to Know Unless you have a phobia like I have that reality television shows will irreparably kill my brain cells, then you have probably seen The […]
Change Leadership Secret – 82 – Measure Twice; Cut Once
Change Leadership — Secret # 82 Measure Twice; Cut Once More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. —Francois Gautier What I Need to Know Remember the saying, “The only thing you can be sure of is death and taxes?” A change leader needs to have a healthy skepticism regarding people’s […]
Change Leadership Secret – 81 – Always Have a Plan
Change Leadership — Secret # 81 Always Have a Plan To do great things, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time. —Anonymous What I Need to Know There is an old saying, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says: Now, the […]
Change Leadership Secret – 80 – Think Big, Execute Incrementally
Change Leadership — Secret # 80 Think Big, Execute Incrementally Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. —Benjamin Franklin What I Need to Know People are often scared by the concept of big changes. They may immediately dismiss […]
Change Leadership Secret – 79 – Actuate, Rather Than Own
Change Leadership — Secret # 79 Actuate, Rather Than Own If it doesn’t start with you, it dies with you. —Julian Casablancas What I Need to Know As the change agent, the client empowers you to put the change into motion. However, it is critical to understand the difference between actuating a change and owning […]
Change Leadership Secret – 78 – Be An Agent of Change
Change Leadership — Secret # 78 Be An Agent of Change Only a life in the service of others is worth living. —Albert Einstein What I Need to Know Being a change leader means being a change agent. Being a change agent means being a change actuator. Sound confusing? Let’s sort it out. When a […]
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