Taking Your Personal Passions to Work
He clarified that this did not mean finding passion for his job but rather taking things he was already passionate about and finding ways to inject that energy into his work.
robertequinn
Vision as Political Compromise
hey asked me what I thought of their vision. I simply responded, “Who is willing to die for this vision?” No one spoke up.
Creating Images of Consequence
We most empower our imagination when we link our minds to our deepest purpose.
How Change Really Happens
Organizational and personal growth seldom follows a linear plan.
The Limitation of Experts
Cultural change cannot be led by experts with the right answers. Culture change is led by facilitators who stimulate collective learning and the co-creation of the emerging future.
Cultural Surgery and Truth Telling
The task of the cultural surgeon is to rewire the collective brain, to move the group from one mindset to another. This transformation represents tangible, sustainable change with impact far beyond the team itself.
Deep Change
Organization and change are not complementary concepts. To organize is to systematize; to make behavior predictable. All organizations are based […]
Helping People Fly Blind
Positive leaders offer an image of the future that generates hope and simultaneously offers unconditional support for the pursuit of that hope. The people need to have faith in the possible future and faith in the supportive present. When they develop such faith, they may dare to move forward and learn.
Taking the Ego out of Leadership
In conventional administrative thinking average behavior is not only acceptable, it is the expectation. In the positive lens the accountability is astronomical. If the people are not performing with excellence, the administrator is not leading. The key is to take ego out of leadership.
Investing in Trust
In organizations we lose billions of dollars and we destroy opportunity because we do not trust each other.