Changemakers needed.
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Alignment vs Consensus
Not the same thing. When you’re trying to lead change, you want alignment. Consensus may be a nice to have. Alignment is a must have. Food for thought for all of you non-change practitioners who are leading change in your organization. Keep up the good work. It matters. Have a great long weekend! I love…
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Are you unreasonable?
I recently finished the book Unreasonable Hospitality, by Will Guidara. I wrote about it a month or so ago (here) I highly recommend it. While his story centers on life in the restaurant business, so many lessons are valuable for any aspiring leader and change maker. Here are two: Be nicer than you think you…
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Leaders don’t think about “change”
I read a post today about the annoyance of “fake” transformations. Lipstick on a pig. My experience has been that senior leaders don’t start by internalizing that we have a “change” to implement. There’s just something very important (critical) that needs to be done. “We need to improve something. Do something new. Go somewhere new.”…
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The right thing
Doing the right thing will never be the wrong thing. Have a great week!
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Nobody knows what they’re doing before they do it
Do you know someone who exudes so much confidence that it’s sickening? Don’t think of that person. Now, think of someone who shows (in your opinion) the ‘just right’ amount of confidence. What is it about them? Is it the way they carry themselves? Is it what they say? Is it the quality of their…
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10 two-letter words than can change your life
It’s 1993. I’ve just started my “career.” I’m in my very first “post-university” job, with a smallish consulting firm based on Canada’s east coast. The company ‘adage,’ on constant replay from our founder and chairman, comes in the form of these 10 very short words. If it is to be, it is up to me.…
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