From the Field
Weekly notes for managers stuck in the Vise, teams tired of mistaking motion for progress, and anyone who’s sat through a meeting wondering where the energy in the room just went.
A Transformation by any other name.
I’ve often wondered if one of the reasons transformations fail to meet expectations, is because so many organizations misuse the word “transformation.” Let’s start with a couple of simple definitions. trans·for·ma·tion /ˌtran(t)sfərˈmāSH(ə)n/ noun a thorough or…
Read more →Moving Mountains
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones” – Confucius Even Confucius was a fan of iteration!
Read more →The insanity of groupthink
📖 “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s thinking about how individuals interact when in a group closely aligns with the concept defined by…
Read more →The point is to understand
📖 “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein The siren call to action can be impossible to ignore. In fact, the pressure to “do” can be so great, that we’ll look…
Read more →An open mind can change the world
Over the last 24 hours, I heard 3 questions that really caught my interest. The first question was “How can you coach someone to get better at something if they don’t think they need to improve.”…
Read more →You don’t have to wait
📖 “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank What are you waiting for?✔️ Reflect✔️ Set a goal✔️ Make a small change✔️ Repeat You…
Read more →Failure teaches us…
📖 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” – John Dewey Some people view failure as a negative, and I can understand why…
Read more →Everything is not fact…
📖 “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius It’s easy to be so confident in a direction or a belief, that…
Read more →Say agility more…
I was having a random conversation with another coach last week, and we had a bit of a shared ‘ah ha’ moment. We, as champions of agility, say the word “agile” (as though it were a…
Read more →Make a difference!
📖 “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to…
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