Last week I had the chance to attend a 3 day workshop on Lean LaunchPad at Stanford, in which I learned the latest thinking on how to successfully launch a new business. Even if you are not an entrepreneur, there are great lessons for anyone navigating today’s fluid environment.
How resistance surfaces varies – from as suddenly and abruptly as slamming on the brakes, to as subtly as water drops slowly eroding the unyielding rock. Today’s post will help you identify the more passive forms resistance can take…..and has some ideas on getting past them.
“If we can learn how to navigate change while capturing the lessons that each teaches us, we’ve mastered one of the most useful skills this life requires.” ~ Guest blogger Rhonda Young, on letting change lead.
Problem solving is looking in the rear view mirror. It’s fixing something that was not right in the first place. Today things move so quickly, that you may be fixing something that is no longer needed.
When leaders are willing to do the inside work that leads to the outside results they want – amazing things happen. The shift in focus creates a domino effect. The leader becomes a powerful role model. The organization is willing to follow. Resistance fades, as people are being led and not coerced.
Today my Entrepreneurship students at Purdue voted on their top Super Bowl ads. Our goal was to examine a few
Leading a virtual team? A global team? These tips can help you be more effective.
Transforming the football field to the world’s largest stage in a mere 8 minutes with a mostly volunteer crew shares many similaries to personal and organizational trasformations. Here’s why.
New Years: an annual time to reflect, plan, resolve and set goals for the upcoming year. The time we put the past behind us and begin anew.
Yet we all know that it doesn’t take many days (and in some cases hours) until we flub up. Harsh words are uttered. A cigarette is lit. We skip the gym. We are late (again). We put off that which we deemed very important just a few weeks ago. We spend more time with paperwork than with the people.
Yet, in spite of year after year of failed resolutions, we continue this rite. So, how might we use some of the resolution rituals differently to get it “right” in 2011?
Real change, lasting change, substantial change occurs when we are able to identify a thought and belief that is no longer serving us well and replace it with a thought or belief that does. This is transformational change, inside – out, and is much more powerful and more lasting. It requires more up front effort in discerning the thought pattern that needs to change – but once the “aha” happens, requires far less discipline, maintenance and is less prone to regressing back to past behaviors and results.
Here is a simple process that can get you started:
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