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Your Coachability is Important in Successfully Navigating Organizational Change
“It’s how you cope with the imperfect matches that makes you great.”
Kim Clijsters (1983 –) Belgian Professional Tennis Player, Two-Time U.S. Open Champion
You don’t know everything. You do know that, don’t you?
Executing Strategic Change: Transitioning From the Class Room to the Board Room
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
Thomas Carruthers, (1820 – 1875), English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia
A bittersweet but true quote.
The summer quarter offering of ‘Executing Strategic Change’ ended last week. So, as I transition my musings from our small intensive community back to this larger community, I will share what I communicated to the class during our final wrap-up.
Wishing my students continued success in their current and future roles.
Sandy’s Ten
Leave Unsaid the Wrong Thing at The Tempting Moment During Organizational Change
Size Does Matter in Organizational Change
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
Diane Ackerman, (1948 - ) Illinois-born poet, essayist, naturalist
Laughing Your Way to the Bank During Organizational Change
from a great post by Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the virtue of humor.
Three Questions to Assess Your Change Readiness
"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes." Marcel Proust, French Novelist (1871-1922)
Rule of Three: Knowing When to Confront Someone
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” J. Donald Walters (1926 - ), Romanian author, lecturer, composer
Opportunities Abound During Organizational Change...Stay Put.
"Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere, waiting for the observant eye to discover it."
Impact of Holding Your Breath During Organizational Change
"Resisting change is like holding your breath, if you persist, you die."
Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism
Any change effort is likely to face a few change resisters. Unfortunately, even if these resisters are few, they can quickly erode momentum and stop change in its tracks.
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