It’s not enough to have a great strategy. You have to have great execution, too. And the secret to dynamite execution is turning your strategy into a social movement. Here I explain what that means and a little about how to do it.
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After I leased my first BMW I decided I wanted to find a way to improve my driving, but not the basics. This was about 7 years ago so I was around fifty. Just after I got my car I received a post card asking if I would like to test drive a BMW against
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I have found that by listening to detractors I can learn a great deal about how to succeed in a change initiative. Not only that but listening usually diffuses 90% of the resisters I engage with. Here are the five gems I get from those who resist change.
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I love some of the methodologies out there for achieving organizational goals, and I enjoy reading when an author has a different angle on the best ways to set and pursue them. I also love personal goal setting and at any one time I have a set of my own that I am working on.
Your Most Valuable Players are the people who will help you most with your change initiative. Here I talk about who you can energize, activate and equip them to be their best on your behalf.
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In the photo you see some of the current participants in my Visionary Leadership Academy standing in front of the Albert Einstein memorial in downtown DC. Last week we went on a sojourn to visit Albert along with Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr – all visionaries ahead of their time. We
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In my experience over 90% of resistance to change can be diffused by listening and framing the change in ways resisters can understand and support. See what I mean in this 2-minute video:Â VisionaryTalk.com Professional Development Opportunities Visionary Leadership Academy still Open This year-long class for senior execs is now full, but I could squeeze one
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In my experience over 90% of the resistance to change can be diffused by listening to the resisters and framing the change in ways that they can understand and support.
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In the attached picture my faithful Sita is helping me clean my office even though she can’t discern when it’s a mess and when it’s not. As long as we are together she is good… and so am I! So much of family and friendship is simply being close to each other. Of course it
Earlier this year I attended the Skid Row School for Large Scale Change where I had the opportunity to work with over 20 leaders who were engaged in creating massive social movements. One I particularly enjoyed was Kate Hurley who single-handedly create the Million Cat Challenge! In this video Kate explains her approach and success:
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