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How to Change a Bad Habit
If you rely on discipline and self control to change a habit you will fail.
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Why We Procrastinate on Things We Care about Most
The things we care most about are often multi-step and challenging.
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Seven Ways to Message Change To Your Team
Despite the distractions created by change, leaders can keep their teams engaged and accountable and get their projects finished on time.
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Involve Others to Create Change
Wherever there is change, there will be resistance to that change. Involvement makes change possible.
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From Confrontation to Influence: Selling Up
When a team wants to introduce a change, they put together arguments that show how the change benefits the manager.
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Change Is Hard
Suggest that people make changes in small increments. Forcing a big change too soon ignites the amygdala and an emotional response associated with fear. It also releases Cortisol, which shuts down learning. Better to recognize and acknowledge your fears.
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Connect Vision to Action
Only about 30 percent of change efforts succeed. To beat those odds, increase productivity five-fold by ensuring that employees are at their peak. This occurs when the basics of project management are present, execution is high, and people have a sense of meaning.
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Lessons Learned from the Bulova Acquisition
Andrew Tisch shares the lessons he took away from the acquisition of Bulova.
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Managing Uncertainty through Scenario Planning
You can be proactive in managing uncertainty – including both worst-case and best-case scenarios.
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Executing Strategy
1) Leaders can set strategy but the followers are the real players. 2) Most work occurs across silos, not via the organization chart. 3) Use visual media to follow up, not reports and speeches. 4) Emphasize goal setting and alignment over performance appraisals.
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Leveraging for Personal Change
We can intervene with people at four levels: 1) teaching, 2) helping them imagine situations they may be in, 3) improving their attitudes by showing personal benefits, and 4) helping them change their beliefs.
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Managing Change
Five ways of thinking about change determine success.
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Working with Resistance
When people resist they complain. Listen to their complaints for the loss behind the anger and their fears of the future.
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Making Change Stick
Changes often don't stick because of the dissonance between logic and emotion, which compete for dominance.
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Changing While the Plane Is In Flight
How do leaders get the space to experiment with change while they keep the plane flying? That’s about recognizing things the leader does that have the most effect — the pieces that should stay on the plate, versus the pieces that can be removed or delegated.
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To Learn Your Talents Invite Future Feedback
To understand your talents better, when people congratulate you on something you thought was easy, thank them and ask, “What was it that you liked? And what’s the one thing you would change the next time?”
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Managing Change in a Global World
Michael Jarrett describes five activities that allow an organization to survive in times of change.
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Change Management: Deal with Cynics
Cynics can slow down or stop change initiatives. To deal with cynics start a new conversation.
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Negotiating Change
Negotiating change is never easy. It’s stressful for managers who are in charge of the change and for employees who are feeling the brunt of that change, but there are ways to go about that change, says John Smith, that can bring about a successful result.
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Results Through Collaboration
Successful organizations collaborate virtually with different people. 1) Collaboration requires reciprocity—a habit of giving. 2) Know whom to link with; successful teams network with stakeholders, not each other. 3) Collaboration assumes a complex task.
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Organizational Transformation
Organizations that transform themselves 1) know their priorities through external and internal insight, 2) conduct experiments, such as the value of telecommuting, 3) figure out how to scale results quickly across the entire organization, then repeat the cycle.
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How to Embed Change
To avoid “initiativitis,” a.k.a. churn, provide visible and committed leadership, a clear sense of direction, and needed resources. Most important, someone must measure outcomes and create an infrastructure that ensures that the change endures.
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Facilitating Chaos In Teams
Most people try to steer clear of chaos. Myles Downey tells leaders how to make chaos work for their teams.
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Tips on Developing a Blue Ocean Strategy
What factors should be eliminated or created to attract those customers and lower costs?
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Why is Change Difficult?
Change requires persistence and small steps.
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Dealing with Fear of Change
In a change effort, 20 percent will be ambassadors, 50 percent will be backseat sitters, and 30 will be percent detractors. Use the ambassadors to engage the 50 percent in going forward. Ignore the detractors; they’re a waste of time.
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The Theory of Constraints - Resistance to Change
This video is an introduction to Goldratt's latest development, and presents an example of the cause and effect logic on how to successfully overcome resistance to change.
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Are You Consistent In Your Commitment to Change?
Constant change isn't any better than no change. Only change that is also progress is useful.
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Building a Differentiating Value Solution
At Data#3, they operate in a competitive marketplace; differentiation is important.