Our challenges are not new. And the future will be different from today. So what do you need to stop doing? What do you need to start?
From the Blog on Change
In Praise of Action
The point of action is to learn and to get us out of our heads. Action is about engaging reality and adjusting plans.
Soil, Plants, and Change
Fertilizer feeds the plants, not the soil. What is the soil in your project? Organisational culture or something else?
Next Steps
What is the problem I face regularly that your vision, idea, dream solves? What are the tangible next steps that need to be and will be taken?
Stomach Churning Anxiety
I could my heart beating and my stomach churning. Not in a good nervous way, but in a high anxiety, ‘I might just throw up’ type of way
Go Through The Window or Door?
It’s easy to tweak on the edges because tweaking the core is too hard. Are we just scared that we will be rejected, laughed at, fail or all three?
We need more experiments, not less
To find new ideas, we need more experiments and tests, not less. For every experiment that is repeatable, there are hundreds that don’t work.
‘I was wrong’ Variations
Change makers are wrong all the time because they are explorers. Becoming good at acknowledging our errors in a healthy way is a key skill.
Authority
Being aware of how the people involved and impacted by the change respond to authority can help the change maker achieve her goal.