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The only constant in life and business is change.  The best leaders understand this reality and do everything possible to prepare and empower their organizations to be proactive about change management.

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Leadership Thought #380 – Change Is a Fact of Life

July 6, 2012

Change is a fact of life. Like or not we will get older. Our minds will get sharper then grow duller. Out bodies will get hard then grow softer. Friends will come and go. Loved ones will enter this world while others exit. If we have children, they will grow up and become independent adults and leave the nest. Our careers will follow a natural arc of emergence, growth, maturity and decline. We will have periods of minimal responsibility and other moments where it feels like we are overwhelmed with life/work obligations. It is difficult to grasp at times, but very few things will ever stay the same.

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Leadership Thought #375 – Change Management Lessons From The Movie Moneyball

June 25, 2012

As a New York Yankee fan, I must admit to not being all that excited about the movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt when it came out. The story is about the exploits of Billy Beane as General Manager of The Oakland A’s when he literally transformed his approach to running a baseball team. When it got nominated for an Academy Award I thought maybe I should see it one day, but didn’t rush out to but it. I finally saw it last week and was blown away. I guess at this point I should pretty much trust anything Aaron Sorkin is involved with. Not only is the movie well written, directed, and acted, it also has many important lessons that are applicable to my work with business leaders. It was almost as if they had a leadership/management expert on the writing team. I’d like to highlight the following takeaways:

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Leadership Thought #374 – Implementing Change Is Hard

June 22, 2012

Most people don’t like change. They tend to prefer what they know to what they don’t know. There is always an element of fear when you are dealing with uncertainty. For some reason, our first reaction is that we will end up losing something and/or being worse off. Our defensive mechanisms kick-in and we resist “the new order of things.”

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    Recommended Reading

  • How To Change

    Katy Milkman

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    Change comes most readily when you understand what’s standing between you and success and tailor your solution to that roadblock. If you want to work out more but find exercise difficult and boring, downloading a goal-setting app probably won’t help. But what if, instead, you transformed your workouts so they became a source of pleasure […]

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  • Start With Why

    Simon Sinek

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  • Reflections On Life and Leading

    Ed Robinson

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    Live the life you want with more success, less stress, better relationships, an improved self-image, and increased feelings of happiness. In this book, I will present some reflections on what I have learned throughout my life to achieve success, balance, and happiness in my life. Life and leadership will be discussed interchangeably since I don’t […]

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    Favorite Articles

  • Middle Managers Should Drive Your Business Transformation

    Successful transformations harness the collective wisdom of middle managers and teams. To increase your company’s chances, you need to: 1) Enlist your very best middle managers. Transforming a business demands a blend of creativity and ingenuity. By setting this challenge you can also test and nurture the next generation of leaders. 2) Empower the middle to […]

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  • How to implement transformations for long-term impact

    Many organizations embark on large-scale transformations, only to end with frustrated leaders and worse-than-expected long-term results. These efforts typically start with high aspirations and significant energy then lose an average of 42 percent of their expected value in the later phases of the transformation program, where the focus shifts to executing and sustaining change.1 While many […]

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  • How “Perspective Swaps” Can Unlock Organizational Change

    Leaders often suffer from “power poisoning” and fixate on their own needs and ambitions. A perspective swap — where, for example, a CEO works as a customer service representative for a day, or an HR representative works in sales for a week — can help detox leaders from blind spots and distorted views of what’s […]

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    Helpful Websites

  • MindTools

    For over 25 years, Mind Tools has been helping people enjoy happy, successful careers with a one-stop learning hub: the Mind Tools Club. Our goals have stood unwavering for a quarter-century: build a dedicated subscription channel to replace multiple searches across countless resources, and deliver a complete toolkit of resources for professional and personal development.

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  • Executive Book Summaries

    outlines the key points and ideas of full-length business books into quick and easy-to-read print summaries

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  • Harvard Business Review

    best selling business magazine of Harvard Business School

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    Video Favorites

  • The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday

    Ryan Holiday shares the core “stoic based” concepts from his book, The Obstacle is The Way. How we perceive things has a big impact on how we deal with them. Being challenged is part of life – embrace it.

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    Yuval Noah Harari, macro-historian, Professor, best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus,” and one of the world’s most innovative and exciting thinkers, discusses his newest work, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.” Described as a “truly mind-expanding” journey through today’s most pressing issues, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” reminds us to maintain our collective […]

  • Ed Robinson | How to Thrive as a CEO During Chaotic Times

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  • A Sense of Urgency – John Kotter

    A Sense of Urgency – Book Excerpt (Click on this link for the Word document)   Chapter 1 – It All Starts With A Sense of Urgency …Go check, then you find people running, and they are stressed out. But this man (leader), and almost everyone else around him, is mistaking the enormous amount of […]

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  • On Leadership and Business Book Excerpts Sections 3-5 by Ed Robinson

        “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” —Peter Drucker   Part Three: It Takes Vision If you ask the average employee of the typical company why the company exists, what sets it […]

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  • Leadership: Essential Writings By Our Greatest Thinkers edited by Elizabeth D. Samet

    STUDYING THE SYSTEM “Our little systems have their day.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson In Organizational Culture and Leadership, Edgar Schein offers the following taxonomy: (1) visible artifacts; (2) espoused beliefs, values, rules, and behavioral norms; and (3) tacit, taken for granted, basic underlying assumptions. “Until you dig down to the bit level of the basic […]

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