Why learn to lead change and make ideas happen? Well… it changes everything.
Learning to lead change changes societies.
Thank you Dalai Lama for your continued perseverance and for never losing that beautiful, bright light in your eyes. You are a guide of many.
Learning to lead change changes cultures.
Thank you Joseph Campbell for your writing and your reflections on the art of living.
Learning to lead change changes the environment.
Thank you Al Gore for shifting our thinking about climate change. I know it took a while (we’re slow sometimes).
Learning to lead change changes nations.
Thank you President Obama for moving a nation. I know Congress is digging in their heals. Lead big. Lead bold if you have to.
Learning to lead change changes big corporations.
Thank you Rosabeth Moss Kanter for writing a book about big companies that have achieved the seemingly impossible: high levels of business performance — innovation, growth, and profit — and social good. Their focus on “triple bottom line” reporting, financial+social+environmental impact, makes me crazy excited that there are executives that know how to lead. There’s hope for big business! (SUPERCORP)
Learning to lead change changes small businesses.
Thank you Chris Guillebeau and Pam Slim for leading a tribe of entrepreneurs to escape from cubicle nation and to live unconventional lives!
Learning to lead change changes non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Thank you to my dear friend Diane who quit her corporate job to serve a bigger purpose in life.
Learning to lead change changes health care.
Thank you Stacey Gruber for changing the world and our options for health care.
Learning to lead change changes entertainment.
Thanks James Cameron for writing a story and producing a movie that is technically inspiring and moving with regard to what we can aspire to be as a human race. Go Na’vi! Avatar
Learning to lead change changes marketing.
Thank you Seth Godin for using marketing as your stage to teach life lessons. Cheers to such an amazing tribe!
Learning to lead change changes lives.
Thank you to those people and groups that organized an amazing response to Haiti. That’s what a powerful nation does — it rises to the occasion to serve and lead with compassion.
Learning to lead change changes you.
I know it does. How so? Please share your story.
Learning to lead change changes me.
Thank you to the fisherman for believing in me. I love you.
Your Turn.
Where has learning to lead change changed you or others you know?
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Excellent post, Melissa, thank you for sharing. My life is filled with change and I have had to learn to deal with uncertainty, chaos, and hope. For me it has taught me humility, taught me how to lead, and taught me to be a better partner to all the important people in my life.
Joaquin,
Welcome to RIVERFORK! Glad to have you and thank your for the thoughtful comments. It looks like you have an interesting company. I'll check out the LeaderNation system demo in the coming weeks.
Cheers!
Melissa
http://twitter.com/riverfork
Joaquin,
Welcome to RIVERFORK! Glad to have you and thank your for the thoughtful comments. It looks like you have an interesting company. I'll check out the LeaderNation system demo in the coming weeks.
Cheers!
Melissa
http://twitter.com/riverfork
Sustaining success depends on an organization’s ability to adapt to a changing environment – whether it’s an external change, such as a transformative technology or a changing economy, or an internal one, such as a restructuring or key process overhaul. Unfortunately, 70% of organizational transformations fail. Why? Because to many crucial elements in the change process are skipped:
http://www.torbenrick.eu/t/r/kho
Torben,
When I saw that you replied, I was very excited. Thanks! Would love to know more about which crucial elements you think are skipped and why.
Cheers!
Melissa
http://twitter.com/riverfork