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Leading Change Initiatives
We are all aware that the pace of change continues to increase exponentially. Our frenetic world makes the need for effective change a matter of survival. Why is it that most change initiatives in organizations are impotent? My own favorite 9 prerequisites for successful change are outlined in this article.

4 Reasons Change is Difficult
Change is necessary if organizations want to continue to improve and grow, but change instantly raising resistance from some people. Change requires a certain amount of faith. Faith is much easier to believe, and even to preach, than it ever is to live by.

Achieving Your Goals Might Require This
For success, having goals and a plan is critical. That is only part of the picture though. Here is a sensible strategy to add to your plan for your personal and professional growth and change for 2010 and beyond.

CHANGE IS TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT
Change is always temporary. It cannot be permanent. We need to accept change because it is always good for our own development.

Making New Years’ Resolutions That Stick
If you find you have made the same New Year's resolutions over and over again each year, this article will give you some tips on how to make them stick this year.

Technology Is Changing Traditional Brick & Mortar Business
Traditional advertising is changing and evolving. Has your business kept up? Hard-copy advertising is becoming obsolete.

The Paradigm Within You
By simply changing the way you think, can put you on the path of change in your life which can allow you to reach your goals. You will always have challenges in your career, your family life, and your personal life, but successful minded people will change their paradigm and turn these challenges into new opportunities.

Five Myths about Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management is a common business phrase that is often misunderstood. Here is a short article that dispels the myths around it and demonstrates what it really is.

The Essential Ingredient in Achieving Your Goals
An article of 924 words describing how to achieve your goals through commitment

The four Stages of Change
Change is inevitable, and many people fear change. Not too many leaders view change as a specific process that can be managed. This article gives a four step model for making change in organizations.

Essential Steps to Making Successful Change
Since change is actually a process, it is important to break down the process into logical steps. This article considers several of the more important steps to successful change.

Thinking Like an Owner
Many people fail to keep the mindset of an owner of the business. In doing so, they suffer political damage. This article gives some tips on how to improve your performance by thinking like an owner of the business.

Adjusting to a New Leader
When a new leader takes over an organization, all kinds of things chaange immediately. There is a process going on, but sometimes it is hard to see it. This article discusses some of the dynamics going on in most leadership transitions.

Being Genuine Why Conflict and Confrontation Is Good During Uncertain Times
Genuineness is a learned behavior and skill each person brings to the team. The good news is that being genuine can also lead to conflict and confrontation which are important for organizations in uncertain times. This article reviews the value of confrontation to growing and thriving organizations and offers six ways to instill genuineness into the workforce.

Is Life Fair?
Life surely seemed fair when we were on a roll.

Failure Is the Tuition You Pay for Success

Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their lives, careers and success. Treating your setbacks and failures as the tuition you need to pay to succeed, is a great way to demonstrate your commit to taking personal responsibility. When you fail, choose to react positively and learn something. Then use what you've learned to create the successful life and career you want and deserve.

Stuck in a Rut?
Most of us don't like change because it makes us powerless.

Hints on managing an ageing multicultural workorce
Research has confirmed the commonly held belief that as people age their ability (and often their desire) to change is diminished and that their thoughts, habits, patterns of behaviour, ideas and perceptions become rigid and limited and that it becomes more difficult for them to change in response to events (‘plasticity’ of the brain is reduced).

The Secret to Creating a Prosperity Mindset
Do you think earning a higher income is hard? The secret to creating a prosperity mindset is to simply take responsibility for your life, knowing that it is within your power to change it to get the results that you want.

First, Know Your Buffalo-Then Get the Right Spears!
You can never overcome a challenge, in your organization or in your personal endeavor that you have not identified. Using the wrong resources and/or strategies will not help overcome challenges, it could even make them worse.

Moving Forward After Organizational Restructuring

Since the early 1980s, a wave of reorganization has emerged. The plight of displaced employees has received great attention, as evidenced by the many programs for helping them retrain, relocate, increase their employability and regain their emotional stability. Relief comes to an organization after restructuring when everyone assumes that the worst has passed. However, the readjustment process for the remaining employees may become a shocking experience for the organization.

Protect Your Success: Have Unfinished Business

The fastest way for an achiever to revert to mediocrity in any endeavor of their calling or profession, is to have no unfinished business. Competitive edge, continuous growth and success, are loosely tied to achieving established goals. The key is to turn yesterday's goals into today's routine, it is also the platform you need to set goals that are more challenging, the one that you never thought of yesterday. You must see and set yourself up for a life beyond today's goals.

Sailing With the Tides of Change for Workplace Survivors
Leaders/managers and supervisors can learn a 3, 000 year old lesson from the Egyptians. When they mummified their Pharaohs, Egyptians removed the dead leader's brain but left the heart intact. They believed that for a leader to be great, a compassionate heart was necessary during and after life.

Top Tips on How to Jump into Personal & Professional Success
Jumping high and forward is an inborn talent for survival of the African impala. The impala is known to jump about ten feet high. This high jump propels the impala to land about thirty feet from the spot where it starts. With this ability of vertical and horizontal jumping, the impala survives and thrives in the carnivore-infested savannas of Africa.

Has Your Wake-Up Call Arrived?

A wake-up call is a resounding signal received that change is necessary in your life. Often we get this type of call when a crisis or deeply challenging situation has emerged. A wake-up call is a resounding signal received that change is necessary in your life. Often we get this type of call when a crisis or deeply challenging situation has emerged. Clients ask me, "What is crisis in our lives? How can we tell we're heading into crisis, versus simply going through a really bad patch?" What are the signs of "breakdown," as I tend to call it?

Develop a Tolerance for Risk
When trying to manage change, leaders often make a huge mistake by not telegraphing a tolerance for risk. This article digs into the issue of risk in making changes and suggests an antidote to this common problem.

New Tricks
Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

What Change Do You Want To See?
So you want to see change? You want to see peace in the world? It all starts with you. Be the change that you want to see in the world. By using universal spiritual principles, you will connect with like-minded others who align and vibrate with the same energy.

All We Need Is Love, Love, Love....
Any change that has occurred in my life has only been when I am feeling fully accepted and loved for where I am at first

Changing One Habit At a Time
Not just for the short-term but for the long-term

Leaders Can't Resist Change
There is no way we can expect a permanent position in any area of business. The marketplace moves with the winds and stops at nothing. We must always be ready to adjust our actions and abilities, as society deems necessary. It makes no difference the scope of our endeavor change will be inevitable.

Change Is A Constant
Dave Mather, a 30+ years sales and business consultant gives new insight into the tired old subject of change. Become a genuine change master.

BOOK REVIEW: Influencer: the Power to Change Anything (By Kerry Patterson et al., McGraw Hill, 2008, ISBN #978-0-07-148499-2)
I like this book because its six strategies are comprehensive. They provide an excellent road map for managers who want to induce change in an individual employee, a unit or, indeed, an entire organization.

Commit to changing your life THIS MONTH
Do you have habits, issues, situations and people in your life which continue to cause you upset and frustration? Are you stuck in a rut continuing in the same old patterns where nothing changes? Are you feeling hopeless and frustrated that things will never improve? If so, I ask you, how many more months; years are you going to continue with these issues?

Change is Personal
When organizations say "It's not personal" when it comes to doing mass re-organizations, they don't get it when the staff pushes back and says "Better believe it's personal!" It's all about people. No ifs ands or buts.

NLP isn't only for creating change & modeling excellence... often its for tolerance!

This article discusses how NLP & Life Coaching can be taken too far, into the realm of the "ALWAYS HAVE TO HELP PEOPLE IMPROVE NO MATTER WHAT" mindset -- which tends to poison relationships and make people feel inadequate all the time. Since for most people, family and friends are and will remain amongst our most important treasures, this article suggests ways of balancing a desire to help others with tolerance and acceptance.

Why Change Is Hard To Do.
I think most people by now have figured out that making a change is hard.

Ready to Initiate Change?
When you commit to change with a crystal clear and very specific list of what you want to see happen in the new year, make it your first business priority every single day. Keep plugging away no matter what – by getting over that hump – you'll have done the hard part. In comparison, the implementation of detailed changes in the business and your own management skills are easy.

Stop Complaining and Get Changing!
I have been feeling pretty stuck a thought pattern and was thinking I could not possibly write about that.

But I Like Things The Way They Were...!!
What are you hanging on to in the past that has changed? What do you need to do to catch up to how it is now? That may seems like a very large step in some cases. I guarantee you it will be worth the work to do it, so get on it!

10 Tactics to Great Change Management
Change, ironically, is one of the great consistents in the world. In business, just like any other environment, we are faced with a seemingly endless pace of change. So, as manager, we have to handle it...

Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing.
The job of entrepreneurs is to lead change.

Resolutions - Solutions or Illusions?
I am going to run you through the SMARRT goals method I use with my clients for any changes they want to make

Do You Think You Are a Failure, When Failure Comes Knocking At Your Door?
I dislike the word failure, if you use demotivating words you will feel a lack of motivation. Think of every experience as a chance to learn and grow and move on.

3 Leaders Who Follow the Signs
These companies trust their intuition, signs and the facts, evolving to intercept opportunities for growth!

Change what you do

January is named after the Roman god, Janus who had two faces - one looking back and the other looking forward. Now is a good time for you to do both. Review the past year to list and celebrate your accomplishments. Also review your setbacks armed with hindsight to crystallize the wisdom you gained. Looking ahead - set your goals and map your path. But don't expect to keep doing what you are doing and get more. Prepare to change your approach just to get the same results. If you want to improve - do something dramatically different.

Quality is Not an Action, It is A Habit

Small Business Owners, have you ever faced this situation? You develop or improve your systems for product or service delivery. Along with your new systems you establish quality standards and measures, and then you train your employees to make sure that everyone knows how to do what they need to do to get the job done to meet the new standards. You feel good about what you have put in place and so you go about looking at other areas to grow or improve only to find out later that the employees go right back to the old way of doing things as soon as they can. How frustrating is that?

Accepting What We Can't Change & Embracing What We Can

One of my favorite quotes comes from Reinhold Niebuhr. He said "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." I think that most people have seen or heard this quote at some point in their lives. It is extremely powerful and life changing once you understand, embrace, and implement it. The purpose of this article is to offer advice on how to implement this philosophy in your life.

Communicators Are Millionaires
The best communicators in nearly every area receive the highest financial rewards. Years ago I received one of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard. It was the idea that "Our income will be in direct proportion to our level of communication". Learning how to communicate well enhances our lives in ways we can not even imagine. Upgrade your communication and elevate your income.

BE DiFFERENT Absolutes of Change
Don't change for the sake of change. Consider these drivers to build your business...

Hiring to Sustain Growth in a New Economy - 2 Things You Should Look For When Hiring New Employees
Two issues that must be addressed so the probability that you will hire and retain the right employee increases significantly...

Is Can't Limiting Your Growth?
Replacing "We can't," with "What if?" is a big step toward releasing the status quo that's holding us back. Once we ditch that gravity, the sky can be our limit!

Motivating Your Workers for Peak Perfomance
I was asked by a manager: How do I define my role? They were having trouble inspiring creativity, and wanted their staff to be innovative without their help.

Creating Intelligent Action Takers

You need "Risk Takers." You need "Mavericks." Identify every employee in that category and empower him or her to go out and get the job done. So what if they bend the rules sometimes. As long as they don't break the law, violate corporate core values or embarrass the company, "Turn Them Loose." You have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The employees will see this as a demonstration of trust and empowerment. Word will travel fast. Promote that concept. Send a monthly memo to everyone praising individuality that result in improvements. Title your memo, "OFF the CUFF" for it's informal straight talking honest feedback from the top. Reward and recognize the risk takers. Commend the change agents. Then align both management and the employees behind the new vision.

Today's Employees Hold Leaders More Accountable

Times have changed, leadership has evolved. The days of the "Lone Wolf" leader at the top who dominates with power are gone. Successful privately held organizations have gone through the leadership evolutionary process. They understand that today's leader must create change in the organization to meet the needs of their customers, to meet the needs of their vendors and most importantly to meet the needs of their employees. Today employees hold leaders more accountable for their actions. They ask tough questions; sometimes very quietly, sometimes boldly. They want to know where you are leading them. Do you have a vision? Can they trust you? Do you respect and trust them? Will you empower them? As a leader in your organization you are held accountable by a variety of people on a regular basis.

Winning Organizations

Effective leaders must have an edge. They must be courageous enough to take risk and have an unrelenting readiness to act. Popularity is not a requirement, but the ability to generate respect from the employees is, without a doubt, one of the most critical attributes. They must be relentless in their efforts, unconcerned about personal sacrifice of their time, and willing to go beyond normal expectations. Tough decisions are commonplace; uncharted territories will be the norm. Honesty and impeccable character are musts.

Change on Purpose

More than ever before, our current economy demands of most companies the ability to achieve measurable results that are specific to profitability, growth, cost containment and operational effectiveness. Of course, none of this will be possible without leadership and organizational change. Without change your company becomes stagnant, uncompetitive and boring. A leader's major responsibility is to create change, instigate change and then manage change effectively. In spite of the fact that creating change is a key competency required to be an effective leader, most people resist change. This includes leaders themselves. However, effective leaders accept change as a positive force and they are able to convince those that follow them that change is nothing more than a road map to a new and better destination.

Managing the Transition: How to Face Employee Resistance Head On When Introducing Workplace Changes
3 Ways Leaders Can Face Employee Resistance Head On to Make the Transition Easier for Everyone Involved

3 Steps to Avoid Gravity
Gravity’s a given – just like Change. But we get to choose how much Gravity we gather.

Purpose & Values are Verbs!
Forget "touchy-feeley" Using your core sense of purpose and values as an active tool set is as tangible as a financial statement or any spread sheet you could build. See how in simple terms from this article by Rudy Miick, FCSI, CMC

The Power of Vision!

Vision of what can be creates functional pull against the gravity of lowest common denominator, "just doing my job." This is quantum physics married to newtonian physics. Everyday we don't engage our teams with vision, sense of purpose, tangible using values, we lose opportunity and get pulled back to the common place... read more here in the "power of vision", first published in Food & Drink Magazine, 2009.

The Impact of Culture by Choice, Not Chance!
You have a business culture. It simply exists. The question is, are you happy with the results your culture's achieving? If the answer's no, you have an opportunity! You can CREATE Culture actively and choicefully. Read more to find out how. This article was first published in 2009 in Food & Drink Magazine.

From Here, Now Where? What’s Not Working and What Will

You know how things are in your business, professional or personal endeavors. You have first hand knowledge of how our economy, that for the most part is still ailing, has affected everything you expect from whatever you do. Your passion, creativity and hope are on hold until “things change.” The reality is, until you ask yourself, “What’s not working for you, what will?” and then implement what will work, nothing will change. Your business, professional or personal pursuits will remain on hold and risk being forced to obsolescence until “things change.”

Un-used Potential
Millions of talents and gifts come and go from this world packaged within people who never used them. Yet, when you discover and use a hidden talent and/or gift, you significantly enrich your life and the lives of others.

Top 7 Tips for Overcoming Buffaloes With Others
When you or your organization is face-to-face with a fierce buffalo, there is no short cut-just as villagers could not run away or climb trees, neither can you escape from the buffalo trumpeting you your organization. You have a strategy and a team to help overcome the beast.

My Father's Leadership

Today's decline of the social structures in America that hold families, corporations and other institutes together is largely attributed to ineffective leaders. As I reflect on the importance of quality leadership, I think of my father, Johnson Kituku Musoo. My father is a living testimony that what you don't have should not stop you from achieving what you want. His mother died before he turned ten, leaving him with a younger brother and sister to care for. I learned about his struggles from other people. I never heard him complain--although I once saw him cry, wishing that his mother was still alive.

Managing Perpetual Workplace Changes

It doesn't matter whether you are an old timer or an amateur in what you do. All that matters in our jungle is to apply the lion-gazelle concept of survival. "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will die. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

Leading Amateurs to Success: What Leaders Can Learn from Mt. Borah
If, as a leader, you have said, "I wish I heard more talented people our production would increase" or "The reason we fail is because we don't have experienced people" think twice.

Job and Success Re-defined

I have been astonished, since 1997 when I started interviewing people before my presentations, by how some professionals, leaders and business owners have redefined what we call jobs and work-related success. These people have factored a critical element in their jobs or success in what they do-they understand how, at the end of the day, another individual's life is made better by their involvement.

7 Must Know Motivators Employees Appreciate at All Times
So often when I am contacted to work with a group of leaders I am asked, "What can we do to keep our employees motivated, focused and increasing productivity?" Then that question is followed by the comment, "We have goals that we want to achieve."

Dealing with the Failure Within an Organization
The best advertisement for any organization is the genuine enthusiasm portrayed by employees. That enthusiasm is a byproduct of how employees feel valued, how they perceive their input is appreciated and how much fun they have doing what they do.

Selling Change
If we're to learn from history, then we must accept the fact that change - either in the form of innovation, continuous improvement or both - is a critical component of growth and ongoing success. But, truth be told, people tend to resist change; so, how might we, as managers or business owners best go about getting the team to accept it?

Change is Good!

Change is a word that oftem brings fear into the hearts and minds of many. Debbie Lessin has never been one to fear change. But she readily admits that the decision to move her CPA office after 23+ years was a huge change and a decision that was a long time in coming. Having survived the move, she recalls how she approached this move methodically, professionally and with a whole lot of balance. As you read the aritcle, remember that the change doesn't have to be about moving an office per se. Think about any change that you are putting off or may not even realize that you need. Change is good. And good change is great! And that's exactly how Debbie feels about the move to her new office space. Some decisions take time. By taking her time to find the right space, Debbie's new work environment is everything she could have hoped for!

Flexibility is Not An Option
You are in control. Take control. You can be as flexible or as rigid as you choose to be. Life is too short to lock yourself in. The opportunity cost in business is too high to postpone opportunities, or wait for the tide to turn back to you.

Are you ready for change?
Change can pose a real threat. A lot of managers talk to me when their organizations are going through change, or when their teams are not performing at their best. “How do I get this member of staff to see things my way?”

The power of one – amongst all

“Inclusivity is recognising that my life, my fate, my future is inextricably linked to yours.” Sharif Abdullah. I have just returned from the International Coach Federation Australasian Conference in Melbourne. The guest speaker was Sharif Abdullah who was truly inspirational. His philosophy mirrors a lot of what I do already, but I know I can do so much more. The theme of the conference was Creating the Future Today. We were urged to “think BIG and to use our skills to address BIG issues such as sustainable resources, social inequalities and global disharmony.”

The Secret to Staying Young
None of us likes change. We become comfortable in our little bubble. But we have to change in order to survive.

Who are you blaming for your short comings?

Welcome to the New Year! I hope you are feeling as refreshed and inspired as I am! But then, late last year, I did have the opportunity of hearing His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, at the conference ‘The Mind and its Potential’ in Sydney. It was an amazing experience. I came away both humbled and enriched, with my mind buzzing! I’d like to share with you some of the things I learnt.

8 Must Haves to Make Every Conversation Authentically Compelling
One of the main things that hold people back from deliberately making change is uncertainty around how to communicate change to others. Our communication patterns, like everything else, evolve over time and are prone to habits. This article helps you check in with how you speak with yourself and others and see where you can upgrade and feel even better about how you “talk your walk.”

A Dozen Ways Leaders Create Meaning
The reason that most workers are not engaged in the business is that they see no real meaning in their work. This article addresses how leaders can change all that.

My Own Personal Gravity
Personal Gravity includes those beliefs and behaviors that limit us in our personal lives. Personal Gravity runs rampant in all our lives, it's part of being human. We learn from our experiences, hang onto that which we know to be true and create habits - in our thoughts and our behaviors. When those habits no longer serve us - they become Personal Gravity.

LIFE COACHING ON THE CHANGE
Life coaching is now established and getting well known. Do we continue with the pure coaching or do we look for 'added value' for our clients?

Smart Women Understand “Life is an Occasion”
This article is about celebrating your life by making it into something that you are proud of and happy to live in. It offers tips and solutions on how to make your life more of an “occasion” with having more of what you want and less of what you don’t. This, of course, means that change may need to take place. Letting go or taking on what’s necessary to make your life an “occasion.”

Making Active Choices – The Key to Success
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Benjamin Franklin said this originally. Sometimes we are aware that the results are not what we want but are unaware that we are stuck in a pattern of unchanging behavior. The first step to making a change is to first become aware of what we are doing.

Managing Through Change
Some people adapt to change easily and even thrive on it. Other people resist change and fight it. What do you do when your company is moving in a direction that you do not agree with?

Commit to Change
â€œA man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.â€ - John Maxwell

Communicate the Results
At some point, the decision is made. The next step is telling people the results and explaining the rationales behind the decision.

Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
Human beings have an amazing capacity to adapt. But adapting too easily in the face of discomfort can leave us stuck in a no-way-out situation.

Coaching Leaders to Change - Leadership Development to Optimize Potential
How do you convince leaders to change? How can you optimize their talents and potential? Which best practices in executive coaching programs produce lasting results that drive business performance? Executive coaching offers a tremendous opportunity to leverage leadership talent and resources, both of which can steer an organization toward sustainable success.

Wanting and getting and having and giving
It has been said that there are two broad kinds of people in the world - givers and takers. The givers ask what's in me for you? The takers ask what's in it for me? I think we are all givers and takers. Intention is what differentiates. The poet Gita Bellin says "Success depends on where intention is." I couldn't agree more.

To Dream the Impossible Dream

"To dream the impossible dream, to right the unrightable wrong that is my quest" What happens when your dream is somebody else's nightmare? Having made my debut into the Costa Blanca Social Scene, (quite successfully - I felt), well I did end up at home, in one piece, (maybe a bit wobbly), I was enthused to participate more. So, during these two weeks I have made a concentrated effort: 1 party, 2 Business Meetings, 5 bars (not all with vino), 1 tarot reading (I need all the help I can get) and a meal out with a friend (not male).

The Agile Leader: Adaptability
Adaptability – the ability to change (or be changed) to fit new circumstances – is a crucial skill for leaders, and an important competency in emotional intelligence. Here are 8 tips to consider in your quest for adaptability.

For Something To Change, You Need to Change!
Have you heard the expression: “If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting!”? To expect different results is the definition of insanity. For our business to grow, there are times when we must stop, review, assess and make some changes.

Change Leadership: The Keys to Success

Responding to and initiating change in today’s organization is a prerequisite to maintaining or gaining competitive advantage. Yet many organizations fail in bringing about worthwhile change. If you are tasked with leading a change initiative in your organization, then this article is essential reading. Leslie Allan provides a starkly honest and compelling overview of what it takes to be a change champion in today’s business environment.

Workplace Change in Six Steps
Managing change in today’s organizations is not easy. Those companies that get it right win a significant strategic advantage over their struggling competitors. Leslie Allan shows how you can apply a practical change management process that will help you gain success on your next change initiative.

Five Leadership Secrets for Challenging Times

We consistently face new and ever growing challenges in the workplace such as reorganizing, downsizing, and “left out sizing.” We are faced with the question, “How do we lead in this storm of change?” It may seem difficult at times and the decisions we make define our short-term and long- term outcomes. I will share with you five leadership techniques guaranteed to keep you on track during these difficult times.

Letting Go
Letting go is one of the hardest things we humans can do. It's in our nature to hang on tightly to things that are safe, comfortable and make us feel good. Whether it's our favorite belief or our favorite teddy bear – we like to hang on to what we know.

Speak and Think the Positive
To often we fail to speak and think the positive, instead we are negative about things and that only brings us more discomfort. No matter what area of life we consider, being negative about it only makes things worse.

Creating Organizational Change, Motivation and Momentum

Change is the one constant that businesses can rely on today. Navigating such change can be a challenge to organizational leadership. Helping employees understand the need for change must be a focus of leadership. Understand the motivational needs of the employee base while clearly communicating the needs of the company will become a much-sought skill for leaders today. This article addresses some challenges faces by organizations within the ever-changing business environment and offers insight into the change process, organizational communication and motivational attributes of the employee base.

What do CEOs and turtlenecks have in common?
What do chief executive officers (CEOs) and turtlenecks have in common? The changing landscape in business is going to reveal some strange adaptations in the future of the American business enterprise. A more youthful workforce will most definitely have a significant impact on both the environment as well as the management that occupies the typical corporate boardroom.

Six Tips to Help You Facilitate Change

Throughout my life, I have seen people who want to make a change but are scared to do so or don't know where or how to begin. They remain in toxic relationships, they hold on to jobs with which they are miserable, etc. There are many reasons why people don't move on or pursue what makes them happy. Unfortunately, this prevents them from living their ideal life. If you want to make a change but are feeling stuck, this article provides six tips that can help you to move forward and create the change you desire and deserve.

7 Reasons You Hate Marketing – And How to Learn to Love It
Marketing is not what you think. And the sooner you can embrace your “inner marketer,” and learn to love her, the happier and more fulfilled you’ll be in your work.

How to Profitably Thrive on Change in the 21st Century
In this article you will learn the four steps you and your organization must go through in order to successfully use change to your advantage.

"The Thrill of the New"
Change is one of the constants in life. Whether we like it or not, and often we don't, change is something we all undergo at key moments in our lives. Two landmarks this year can give us some insight on how best to handle change when we have to.

Are You Managing Paradox?
What do we mean when we say that management is a paradox? Find out in this fascinating article exploring the true nature of managers and the managed.

7 Keys to Managing Change
While change is inevitable, it is not something all of us like. Find out how to manage change better with these 7 secrets.

Reinvent Yourself
We each have something that delights us, that we enjoy doing and most times a yearning to share that with others in some way. And this essence that wants to break out leads you to reinvent yourself – many times over the course of your life. Let’s talk about some of the obstacles that keep you from doing things you love and how to work around them.

Four Benefits of Embracing Change

You don't need anyone to tell you that the world is undergoing many changes right now; that's pretty obvious. What may not be so obvious is your ability to adapt to the changes that are necessary for your business to survive and thrive in the changing market. How do you set yourself up for success when global changes are affecting the future of your business? You find out where the change is headed and adapt to meet the demand.

Motivated to Change
Article of 1132 words explaining how to motivate yourself to change by identifying your pain and envisioning your pleasure.

Is "leadership" dead?

"Leadership" now seems to be a catch-all term (a bit like "communication"). That being the case, has the time now come when we should be considering whether the term "leadership" has lost its impact and whether we need to radically rethink the whole concept by moving out of all the traditional concepts like "servant leadership", "situational leadership", “contingency leadership”, “leadership habits” etc that are based on attitudes and behaviours?

The Six Pillars of Energy-Aware Entrepreneuring
One of the greatest benefits of being an entrepreneur is having the freedom to do what you want when you want… and that can be a bit daunting when you’re actually living it. With focus and proper support through the pillars of success for energy-aware entrepreneuring, you can find your way to freedom.

How To Focus On Your ‘Right’ Priorities
The word ‘right’ for me means right-brain, which translates to intuitively honoring the optimal choice or investment of time and energy. The right priorities are not always the obvious priorities.

Resistance and Resilience Reflect Each Other
Resistance is what we experience when we’re getting ready to do something that goes beyond what we know, expect or find familiar. It’s the thing that makes us have bad hair days, get paper cuts, drop the coffee, run late or lose the phone when we’re about to make big change. The ironic thing about it is that resistance shows up even when we actually want the change to happen.

8 Ways Leaders Build Culture
The culture of an organization is something that is highly impacted by the actions and words of leaders. This article describes what makes up the culture and 8 things leaders can do to improve it.

Could a Coach Get You There?

You know what coaches do for athletes. You've heard what they've done for the rich and the famous. What about you? Have you ever thought about partnering with a coach? Barbara Garro spent the time to graduate from both Corporate Coach University and Coach Training Institute. Why? Corporate/entreprenerial coaching entails complexities personal/life coaching does not. Why else? Business people have personal lives and I wanted to combine my skills so my coaching clients get Work-Life Coaching or Life-Work Coaching. Garro coaching is all about getting you where you want to be when you want to get yourself there.

The 10 Energetic Keys of Business: What Could Be Tripping You Up
Everything is energy; quantum physicists are proving that daily, and that includes your business. If your business feels stuck or you know it could be better, this is vital information you can use right away. Knowing these triggers as keys to unlocking your business potential can save you time, resources and money by identifying what you might not even recognize as an issue.

The Power of Practical Wisdom
To have practical wisdom means that you know when to innovate, when to bend the rules, when to be flexible, when to improvise a solution. No set of rules can give us what we want because they become inherently constrictive. And rules can often require the individual to sacrifice their own beliefs in order to adhere to the rule.

Five Reasons Why Nothing Has Changed in Your Organization
Here are five reasons why nothing seems to have changed in your organizations, despite your best efforts to make things happen.

Why Is it Difficult to Change?
This month a lot of changes are on the horizon and I thought it might be interesting to tackle the subject of change and why it is difficult to change.

Don't Be a Byron

Byron runs a very old and historically successful business. His twenty-five hundred employees have seen good times as well as bad times. Business has boomed and business has gloomed in his twenty-five years with the company. Unfortunately, lately has been more gloom and doom than boom. Byron has made millions of dollars on stock options as the company has moved up and down with the energy sector. The predictability of the stock is amazing when looked at historically. He is very wealthy with all the promise and challenge fortune brings. He feels very deserving of his spoils.

Leader Interrupted

The concept of leadership within the protection of this book or the walls of any classroom is much different in execution. Too often, leaders understand the factors that promote effective leadership yet still fail to execute at critical opportunities. Why can leaders say (and even believe) the right things and then contradict the very same statement with their teams? Why does leadership theory get diluted in application on the job? How can we develop leaders to execute properly? These simple questions and the answers are in fact a revelation for most organizations.

If it isn't Broken, Break it!

Peter Drucker stated that obsolescence must be planned into products and processes in order to stay ahead of the competition. A company or product that is stagnant only creates fertile opportunity for competition. In other words, your competition will always replicate the success you have achieved in the past. This simplified premise makes innovation the competitive advantage that most successful companies lack over sustained periods of prosperity.

Choose Your Path
You wish that you could do something over, take back an action, or exchange an utterance? The bad news is that you can’t – what’s done is done. The good news is that it’s already in the past and this is the first moment of the rest of your life. Since you can’t change the past, what does your future hold? It’s up to you to choose.

Why You Should Change Your Organization's Culture

The culture of your company (and yes, your company has a culture now, whether you can describe it or not) is the habitual way people in the company respond everyday to challenges and opportunities. The habitual way of responding can help your company reach its goals, or it can hinder it. Culture can be changed, though not easily, but first you must know what kind of culture you have and what kind you want.

It's Better to Be Different than It Is to Be Better
To build your brand, drop the excessive professionalism and simply be yourself, "focus on creating differences and distinctions between you and everyone else, you don't have to focus on boasting or showing that you're better."

Entrepreneur Flexibility: More than Practicing Yoga
We are told to be flexible, that the only constant in life is change; that we can't step in the same river twice, as heraclitus said hundreds of years ago.

Major Change

We have no better example of how, in times of crisis, people pull together than in our own backyard. Look at the impact the storms and Cyclone Yarsi has had on Queensland. One of the biggest challenges facing any group of people is how to cope with a huge upheaval or change in their lives. In the face of fear and insecurity people come together and work as a team to get through. It is so uplifting to see the unselfishness of others who have left their immediate problems behind to offer help to those less fortunate. This same spirit should be used when facing major change at work.

3 Ways to Keep the Change
Think about it for a minute; as a kid you were told what was going to happen. You were told you were moving to a new house, or a new city, or a new school. Your family did not wait until they got your "buy in", you were just packed along with the furniture and off you all went.

You Can Only Start from Where You Are
Every process of change begins by determining exactly where we are, then deciding where we want to go and then creating an action plan for moving forward with confidence.

Making the Case for Change
People are often afraid of change and shifting the status quo. This article covers why you may be afraid of change and what you can do about it

The Choices of Lif
Just as you start to think that your life is progressing nicely and going smoothly along a certain path, a big rock jumps up into the road and knocks the wheels right out from under you., but as Nelson Mandela said “it is not how many times you fall down that counts, it is the times that you get back up again that are important”; so here I go again along my merry way.

Step Right up & Take a Chance!
Step right up & take a chance, no I am not urging you to buy a lottery ticket or play roulette. I am urging you to give yourself the chance to take a chance. How many times have you heard somebody say, “Well, I would have done it, but I never got the chance.” Or maybe “nobody would give me the chance to show what I could do.”

Flip the Feeling!
You have the power to change the way you feel about anything! Learn to flip the feeling!

Be New and Improved
Be the new and improved you! Start making changes towards your success!

Speak Positive!
Plant good thoughts in your mind by speaking positively

I Wanna Be a Kid Again! - It's More Fun Than Retiring

I loved being a kid and I learned so much while I was playing. But life became serious. I started taking courses I didn't want to do and try to be someone I didn't want to be. Fun became a waste of time that could be better used on making money. Before you know it, life is slipping by fast. At 60, bosses tell you "you're too old to work anymore...go book into God's waiting room and pass the time until you die". That's when I exploded.

Got Limits?
Get rid of self-limiting beliefs in order to succeed.

Create New Success Habits!
Now is the time to create some new success habits!

What\'s Behind Your Walls?

This weekend I drove to my son's house and we decided to "remodel" my grandson's room for his upcoming "tween" birthday. He'll be 12. We worked for 15 hours straight pulling up carpet, tearing down paneling, plaster, lathe, and putting up insulation and sheetrock. We didn't finish but Jorden was excited to see the room will be quite a bit different. Thank goodness he has patience and vision. Do you? As I was driving home I thought about how many businesses need to do the same thing. They're working in a "stinky" environment that needs to be changed from the foundation up. Have you looked at your organizations' foundation lately? Are there people there that you've been thinking for years, needs to be removed from the building? Have you tolerated them because of their esthetic value? If so - in these tough economic times - maybe it's tim

What’s so H.A.R.D. about Change?
Change IS hard. It’s hard because, as humans, our brains are wired a certain way. When we understand how the mind works, we can use this knowledge to make change a little easier and stop battling with ourselves. We can use our minds to work WITH us instead of AGAINST us. We can learn to become the master of our thoughts and emotions instead of being at their mercy.

Are You Adept At Adapting?

I've found the most adaptive people to change often are entrepreneurs, whether they are inside or outside organizations. Either as independent business people or corporate executives, they react quickly to change and they have a "next" (what's next) mentality. They seem to have certain attitudes and behaviors that allow them to "roll with the punches" and take advantage of changing situations. When change occurs - whether good or bad - they nearly always land on their feet. For them, change truly is interesting.

The 5 Cs of Change

Understanding how to coach, challenge and inspire others around us to change is so valuable in our daily lives, whether we are at work or play. You can have the most compelling personalities or the most extraordinary creative ideas driving the change – yet to no avail, without coupling them to the ‘5 Cs of change'. LiveChange’s 5 Cs of Change help any change to take place in our lives, be it in or out of the workplace – and you have to navigate all 5 steps in the right order….or you risk wasting your time. So what are the 5 Cs of Change?

The Chain of Habits
How to break bad habits: 5 powerful tips.

Fundamentals and Change Equal Success
Successful people are willing to change where necessary but not until they have executed on the fundamentals. The unsuccessful make the mistake of changing before getting the fundamentals down.

Which Is Harder: MAKING a Change or SUSTAINING the Change?
Article of 1014 words explaining why change is so H.A.R.D. and why commitment is key to making and sustaining the change.

More Oomphy Moments Please!
Every now and then life becomes boring. Some of us can afford to liven it up but others on stricter budgets aren't so fortunate, but that doesn't mean they have to stay in their rut. There are things they can do, too.

3 Options for Managing Change Plus 7 Steps Organizational Leaders Should Take When Facing a Challenge
Here are 7 steps you should take to successfully increase the chance of implementing a change effort...

Leading in Times of Change
Of the many issues with which we wrestle each day, one certain truth is: the future will not look like the present. To lead, we must be adept at balancing what must stay constant with what must change. Learn how to align all resources and strategies toward the realization of your vision and goals.

A simple routine for change
Try following this routine every day or choose a few ideas to begin with? NO EXCUSES - You can find the time and remember, you are worth it!

Lessons from a Shopping Mall
Regardless of what you do for a living, you must place your clients on a pedestal and adapt to their changing needs and preferences.

Leadership Responsibility
The degree to which you lead your organization or team to success lies in your hands. Your ability to lead both yourself and others will enhance the quality of your work as well as your life. The quality of your leadership not only determines your future, it determines the future of your organization and the lives of all those who follow you.

Culture Change Begins with Desired Results
To accelerate a change in the culture, start by defining the new results you wish to achieve.

Every leadermanager™ is responsible for succession planning

Succession planning concerns every role. As I share with my audiences “succession planning is not just about executives, it is about every role in your organization.” As a financial services branch manager in the 70’s two files in the bottom right hand side of my desk played a vital role in my success, one was my employee bank and the other contained the minutes of my weekly meetings with my staff. Do you have an employee bank? Do you have weekly meetings with your staff?

Now is the only time that matters

There is no doubt in my mind that if we pay undue attention to our past or our future, we severely inhibit our performance in the present. In my observation the people who consistently perform at high levels at those folk who are experts at focusing in the now. Elite athletes describe this as being in the zone. Wayne Dyer stated the obvious when he said “you can’t change the past.”, yet for many of us the past has a hold over us. We can’t do much about the future either, expect to be ready for it.

Put People Before Profits and make more money!

My solid conclusion after thirty five years in business, twenty of which have been as a advisor, educator, mentor and speaker, is that leader/managers and business owners who genuinely put their people before profits make more money and are therefore able to make a greater contribution to the world, locally, nationally and internationally, in a myriad of ways. Putting people first is a key strategy and is one of nine essential ingredients in my view for success in business in the modern world.

Stop trying to manage people

“I hate managing people” was my client’s opening comment, before we had greeted one another in our usual friendly manner. “Great. Time to stop trying.” was my reply. My client gave me an out of character blank look. “People cannot be managed.” I said. Another blank look. I meet so many people negatively stressed by their perceived inability to solve so called people problems. After many years of observing and interacting with people I am led to several conclusions.

Are you a sparkenationist?
A sparkenation is a word I created to denote: a spark that ignites passion that leads to action that changes what’s normal. The world needs sparkenationists like never before. Are you are a sparkenationist?

The Universal Law of Deliberate Creation
Infinite growth. Eternal change. Never-ending creation. It all begins with thought. Literally, every thought you think influences and adds to what you are experiencing. Yet most people's lives change very little. How do you account for that?

Are Your Communication Strategies Really Engaging Employees?
Employee engagement is a shared understanding of the issues that affect the business, and that understanding leads to changes in employees' attitudes and behaviors... help employees truly understand the issues and make a meaningful connection between their jobs and those issues...

The New Sales Funnel – Makes Sales Fun, Easy and Effective
The economy is not the only thing that has changed, so has your relationship with your clients. If you want to attract new clients and expand existing relationships, then you need a new approach to selling and a new sales funnel.

Smart Women And The Tug of Transition
This article is about using some simple tips to start considering entrepreneurship or starting your own business.

Walking Your Talk & Running Away With Your Ideas
Eric Clapton sang the definitive song ‘Change The World’. It is about making way for your dreams and aspirations. The Buddha taught: ‘Do good. Be good.’ How do express your ideas and business intent?

Pushing Potential
When was the last time you nudged your potential? Potential – that elusive thing that is just out of your reach and that which raises your value and enhances your substance. Move from ‘what if?’ to ‘what could be’ to ‘what is’.

I WANT IT NOW!

Are you still wow'ed by some of the technology that is available to us today? Things continue to change and change fast. So estimates say that this is creating the most technology "aware" consumer than at any other time in history. But if you're a business owner, you must be aware of what these changes mean to you and the future of your business. And if you don't adjust you may not be around very long!

The Wiggler, The Stickler, and The Hermit

Understanding the tendencies of managers can be very entertaining and humorous. Learning to identify the common challenges faced by many managers can enlighten us to the point that we improve our own performance. Labels can help us identify both the success and failure we all experience when assuming a leadership position within an organization. As you read this, I encourage you to examine these labels for both intrinsic and extrinsic value. In other words, do you sometimes exhibit behavior that can be indentified with each label? Have you worked with others that fit these descriptions?

The Neuro-Science Behind Success: How You Can Outsmart Your Brain
So you think you are too old or too set in your ways to change? Not so! Neuro-plasticity research now proves what many have long known: that you are never too old to change, and more so, that you can rewire your brain to think and act in ways that lead to greater success in work, love and life.

Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How
Majority of people want something better for their families and themselves than what they are currently doing. There are many opportunities that anyone (with work) can do to make their lives more of what they want and desire than just settling for what they have.

Engage my emotions and I'll follow your lead
Creating engagement and change in people requires the ability to tap into their emotions, rather than presenting facts and figures. This article explains why this is an essential skill for todays leaders and how they can go about it.

Change Your Life (Transform Your Life in 21 Days)
Transform Your Life In 21 Days is an astonishingly powerful, yet simple e-book that will give you the tools to change your life. It is concise and to the point – designed to get you to take ACTION and start changing your life now!

Get The Most Out Of Coaching
The past four weeks, I have outlined for readers what I believe Business & Life Coaching is and isn’t, and also challenged you by asking if you’re ready for coaching. Today, we complete this series by assuming you are ready. So, here we go!

WRITE A NEW STORY

'Write a New Story' is a great metaphor for many things in our lives. Sometimes it's about creating healthier habits. It could be initiating important changes in the way you contribute to your key relationships - or making a decision to move beyond an existing situation. Either way, what's most important is recognizing the choices we have and acting on those choices with honesty, wisdom and compassion. As we know, the outcomes that develop are stronger-decision making skills, more confidence, courage, personal happiness and fulfillment of purpose.

How to Be Open-Minded to New Ideas

If you have definite ideas about how things are or how they should be, you’ve probably had someone tell you to “keep an open mind.” Having an open mind is important to succeed in life. Embracing, or at least considering, new ideas and technologies is vital to our personal growth. Are you willing to consider someone else’s opinion? Can you look at facts that may seem suspect and analyze them without bias? If you’re open-minded, you can be flexible when met with new ideas. It means you can adapt to new experiences. Being able to think critically is a vital component of being open-minded. In our quickly changing technological world, it’s important to keep an open mind in order to keep up and stay current, rather than missing out on all the new things around us...

What are the success habits that make up a great leader?
Election Day has come and gone. The president has been elected, and I would like to share something important with you. We're going to put aside the faults of both major candidates and talk about something more important. Leadership. Have you ever asked yourself “What are the success habits that make up a great leader and what can we learn from them?”

Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Work!
Every New Year’s Eve millions of people all over the globe make resolutions for the coming year. Every year they look back disappointed that yet another year has come and gone and their goals haven’t been achieved again. They feel like losers and they lie to themselves again by solemnly pledging to shape up, be stronger and do better next year.

You Only Have Two Choices!
You Have Only Two Choices! Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

What Communication Habit(s) are you Addicted to?
Contrary to physical addiction, most communication habits fortunately can be eliminated by discovering their roots - and by mastering a new communication behavior.

Change is Life

"I hate all this change. Why can't things just stay the same?", Dirk shouted angrily at the TV news anchor. He threw a pillow at the TV screen and clicked it off with a snort. Suddenly a hissing noise arose from the corner of the room and green, shimmering mist filled the air. Dirk stood in shock as a one-foot tall, wrinkled old man emerged from the glowing cloud. The tiny, grizzled fellow had a long flowing white beard and was dressed from head to toe in green. His eyes twinkled with mischief as he flashed a gap-toothed grin. "Hi, I am Mike. I can take you to a place where people don't have to deal with change and things stay the same all the time."

Living on The Edge of Chaos...
We all live on the edge of chaos every time something changes. It does not matter what the change is, or when the change occurs. This change can be personal, national, financial, emotional, or psychological. When change happens, we are forced to move to the edge of chaos to deal with it.

Growing with Change
Change happens. And while we can't control much of the world changing around us, we can control how we respond. We can choose to anticipate and embrace changes or resist them. Resisting change is like trying to push water upstream. Generally we're quick to point to others who resist change. It's much harder to recognize or admit to our own change resistance.

Are you scared to change?
We often fear the worst if we change a habit or behavour fearing that other people won't like it or that we won't be able to handle the outcome.

The Art of Change
From the iron age to nearly the industrial age, blacksmiths prospered. Villagers needed plows, shovels, iron tires for wagons, nails and tools to build their homes, all of which the blacksmiths forged. They needed their horses and oxen shod and their tools repaired. Being a blacksmith was a sound professional choice.

Great Stories Change Cultures

It’s always fascinating talking to clients and listening to engrossing, sometimes astonishing, stories about their organisations and their Brands – what surprises me is how few of the really good ones are used as company assets to strengthen their cultures and inspire their workplaces to positive change. Many change initiatives fail is because they rely too much on the classic ‘data gathering, analysis, report writing, and presentations’ instead of more creative approaches that use great stories to grab feelings and to motivate real performance improvement.

Creating Success This Year
Make this year the best year of your career and your life. Look inside yourself, reflect and decide now what you will change, stop, start and continue doing this year.

Cross-Cultural Communication and Change
When we recognize that cultural activities outside of the market create customized products relevant to the culture, we create innovation and cultural market viability.

Handling Change in the Workplace: Logical versus Emotional Reactions

People need time and support to adjust both logically and emotionally to change. This article explains how change can impact on staff and provides keys to help them adapt and settle into the new environment. Change can be positive if handled well or a recipe for disaster if handled poorly. Through the use of a case study, the pitfalls and negative impacts are discussed; then follows some pointers for managing change in the workplace and a practical method for accepting change on a more personal level.

Trust Measurement: How to Measure Smarter

Trust is an attribute, a value and a character trait that is very much on every leader's mind. We are seeing more and more programs which focus on building and maintaining trust. Leaders want to be sure that they are getting value for money and therefore look at measures which can report the ROI. Sometimes, though, this focus on immediate or even medium term ROI misses the deeper meaning behind these kinds of efforts. When you are changing attitudes and behaviours, you are working at a deep level of change. You have to look at different performance metrics which don't focus on quantitative results but can look at the deeper layers of change. Dr. Dean Spitzer is my performance guru and has written a useful guide on Transformational Performance Measurement

Are You Ready for the Future?
Change will happen. Things will be different next year. If we plan well for the known, reacting to the unknown is much easier. I encourage you to become a good planner, so that you are better able to handle whatever exciting new things come your way.

Dealing With Change

"The only constant is change". Change is something that affects us all in our lives some more serious and impacting than others. Moving house, changing jobs, redundancy, divorce, losing a loved one, death, they all affect us in different ways and our ability to cope varies from the type of person we are, to how strong we feel at the time, what else is going on for us at the time and our level of stress.

The 2011 Execution Round-Up: Six Organizations That Couldn’t “Get It Done” This Year
It’s that time of year when business owners and senior executives take stock of the past twelve months. What did 2011 look like for you and your company? The questions you could ask during your year-end assessment are endless. But, there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives?

Going Boldly Where No Person Has Been Before - into 2012!

As you move forward into the unknown - into 2012 - what's your attitude? Are you allowing any negatives from 2011 to dominate? Is there an anxiety because of the realisation that desired results depend as much on what others do as on what you do? There are things that you can do within your own mind to change that and there are also plenty of people available to provide coaching, mentoring, and wisdom to help you on your journey.

I Wasn't Losing……..
I recently saw Ted Turner being interviewed on CNN. The interviewer asked Ted how he kept going when his sailing team lost year after year and his baseball team was in last place for four years before going on to win the World Series. Without any hesitation Ted said, “I wasn’t losing, I was learning how to win.”

We Sell Like We Buy - The Yin and Yang of Sales
Many sales leaders fail to realize how their actions impact their sales teams' performance. The old adage of do as I say not as I do comes in to play. One of the severe impacts is the way in which our leadership goes about purchasing, the way in which they do that very much reflects the way their teams will end up selling, no matter what they might tell them to do. In short, We Sell like we Buy!

Your Personal Philosophy: Belief Systems and The Acquisition of Knowledge
Our lives are a function of our persona philosophy - our hidden belief systems that we use to navigate the world. Behind every problem and all superior performance is a personal philosophy.

The Undeniable Truth To Elevate Your Life and Business No One Is Telling You
The Undeniable Truth About Elevating Your Lifestyle and Business That No One Is Telling You

Awareness
Be! Here! Now!

For The Times They Are A Changin

What a great song by Bob Dylan. A real Classic. But it doesn’t matter if you are a Dylan fan or not, the times they are definitely changing. And how you respond to those changes makes a huge difference in where you go. How are you responding to the changing times? That is really what I want to look at today. How to help you begin to understand what you need to do to move forward and create success in all you do. So the question we tackle – how are you responding to change. How are you handling that fact that the economy is now different? How are you handling that it is not business as usual?

There Is No New Normal
A friend sent me a description of a speech entitled, “The New Normal.” I’d seen that phrase before. Heck, I’ve used the phrase before. However, although we want to believe there actually is an identifiable normal, there is no new normal. No matter what happens, though agility and speed are tools for dealing with a lack of normalcy.

You’re never too old to learn and grow (I hope!)
Are you being stretched outside your comfort zone? Change in the workplace – and in life – is inevitable. Embrace it and learn from it.

Jim Kouzes: Leaders Focus on the Destination
Jim Kouzes advised leaders to start by developing relationships and being credible. Then, stay focused on the goal and remind others of the goal, even if difficulties cause you to change your route on the way to your destination.

What McDonalds can teach us about Adaptability
Charles Darwin said 'it's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.' McDonalds has woken up to the fact that 'Business as Usual' is no longer relevant.

Radical Change for Profit
Often the most radical thing you can do is to shift a belief. Or let go of something you’ve invested a lot of energy and money in, that no longer serves you or your business.

Open Door - Right Direction?

Here’s a reader question: Dan, My big goal is to start a business and I’ve taken the first few steps. My broad goal is simply to find a different job. It’s funny though – the more I work on my business plan, the more interviews and job opportunities come open to me. I’m not sure if it’s a sign that I’m really headed on the right track (and the other jobs are distractions) or if it’s a sign that there’s something else out there for me (just a different job, not my own business). How do you figure that out?

Likes and Dislikes
My friend and mentor, the late, great legendary Coach John Wooden, often said, “Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.” This was Coach Wooden’s attempt to get us all to understand that we need to find peace and happiness in the midst of things that we can’t change.

The Value of Change
Marketing people can be divided into two categories: those who resist change and those who welcome change. Guerrillas are in the second category. They not only welcome change, but they also are ready for change and respond to change.

Change: Will You Resist With Terror or Embrace With Wonder?
Life is one long experience of change. Sometimes it's change we welcome. Sometimes it's change we step into apprehensively; and at other times, it's change we fight tooth and nail. The reality is that experiencing change in your life is a certainty. Whether your experience of change is one of terror or wonder is a choice.

The Problem With Plans
You'd change course rather than fly into a thunderstorm, wouldn't you? Even if that storm wasn't in your flight plan? Markets change, customers change, people change - plans should change too.

LEADERSHIP IS FROM “WHAT WE ARE” TO “WHAT WE MAY BE”
Change is only going to remain constant. Change alone is eternal, perpetual and immortal. Life is never statuesque it is always in progress. The world is always in progress. Change starts when someone is observing the next step or thinking for a new world or moving forward. When you get aware with the change, you start following change and you totally change.

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