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A collection of 27 issues

Your Environment Signals the Need for Change

🔖Week 21 Lesson: A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 4: Tactic One - Bring the Outside In) This week’s lesson was about how to bring the outside in to increase the sense of urgency. The basic idea is that people up and down the hierarchy of

True Urgency for Real Change

🔖This Week’s Lesson: A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapters 1-3) Hi!! I am so excited to share with you what I’ve learned so far this week! In previous posts, I went into detail about two different change efforts I tried to bring about: * Formalizing a

Week 19: Alan Mulally - the RIGHT leader

🔖This Week's Lesson: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman (Chapters 15-21) This week, I finished American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company. In reflecting on how I might distill the lessons from the

Week 16: Autonomy Needed

An old friend contacted me out of the blue this week. She’s in the Army reserves and has been deployed overseas for a few months and is expected to stay for another year. Unexpectedly, however, she’d returned back to the United States on emergency leave because both of

Week 15: How to Fight the Enemies of Trust

🔖This Week's Lesson: The Enemies of Trust by Robert M. Galford and Anne Seibold Drapeau (Harvard Business Review article) This week, I reread The Enemies of Trust from which I think there are two main takeaways. First, the article defines three different kinds of trust that exist in

Week 14: Being the change you want to see might have an unexpected meaning

🔖This Week's Lesson: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman Chapters 7-9 Ok so before I tell this story, I’m going to admit to you that I’m not exactly proud of how I handled the situation. I’m

Week 13: Alan Mulally had the Courage to be Different

🔖This Week's Lesson: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman Chapters 5&6 The biggest takeaway from this week’s lesson is to have the courage to be different! When it was first announced that Alan Mulally would take

Week 12: Alan Mulally takes on Ford

🔖This Week’s Lesson: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman Chapters 3&4 My mind is kinda spinning… At the end of last week, we learned of the tragic state in which the Ford Motor Company found itself when Bill

Week 11: It was the worst of times...at Ford

🔖This Week's Lesson American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman Chapters 1&2 This week, I started reading American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company. Ok, so for full transparency, this is not my

Weeks 9 & 10: Using Personas and Journey Maps to Aid Change

Sometimes, leaders need a break. I needed a break. That’s why there was no article last week. 😴 But this week, I was recharged! I am leading an important initiative at work to develop our own talent in a very niche skillset. Although I have developed many people in this