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Change Leadership Secret – 55 – Understand Effort
Change Leadership — Secret # 55 Understand Effort It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out. It’s the grain of sand in your shoe. —Anonymous What I Need to Know Power may be associated with many things, but in the Change Leadership Framework, power is a measure of effort. Physicists define power as the […]
Change Leadership Secret – 54 – Short Cuts = Short Circuits
Change Leadership — Secret # 54 Short Cuts = Short Circuits Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. —Jean Jacques Rousseau What I Need to Know Have you ever short-circuited an electrical wire? When you short-circuit a wire, it either blows a fuse or starts a fire. Either way, the electricity goes out and […]
Change Leadership Secret – 53 – Don’t Blow A Gasket
Change Leadership — Secret # 53 Don’t Blow A Gasket The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. —William McFee What I Need to Know During the twentieth century, Norman Vincent Peale was considered one of the most influential evangelists of the power of a positive mental attitude. Taking a more scientific approach, Kurt […]
Change Leadership Secret – 52 – There Is No Magic
Change Leadership — Secret # 52 There Is No Magic Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1st century A.D) What I Need to Know This secret is a reminder to continually characterize the Jack-in-the-box and the various stakeholders’ change responses. Remember the stories of Harry Houdini, the famous magician and […]
Change Leadership Secret – 51 – No Pain, No Gain
Change Leadership — Secret # 51 No Pain, No Gain Genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. —Jane Ellis Hopkins What I Need to Know Change involves risk—the risks of making the change and the risks of not changing. But change also has cost. One of the costs of change is pain. Change may […]
Change Leadership Secret – 50 – Change Paths To Success
Change Leadership — Secret # 50 Change Paths To Success My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. —Abraham Lincoln What I Need to Know How many successful football running backs put their heads down and run in a straight line? Successful running backs keep their […]
Change Leadership Secret – 49 – Choose Changes Wisely
Change Leadership — Secret # 49 Choose Changes Wisely To wish to progress is the largest part of progress. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1st century A.D.) What I Need to Know Once a person has coped with the forces in her life space and has either removed or is operating within the constraints of her cognitive […]
Change Leadership Secret – 48 – The Glory days Never Were
Change Leadership — Secret # 48 The Glory days Never Were No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to sleep the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream. —R. Buckminster Fuller What I Need to Know The rosy retrospection […]
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 […]
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