Eclectic Change

Short Humorous Video on the Challenges of Change

We had a brochure we used a year ago that had a cut picture of a baby's feet with the caption CHANGE Is Hard:Only babies with wet diapers want to be changed. Here is an even better example of the challenges of change. It adds the diversity aspect so well.

Twelve Principles of the Wisdon Council – on Video

At 1-Focus International, we have created a sustainability framework that integrates and honors large scale and individual change processes. In the spirit of sharing knowledge with others about these various large scale change methodologies, I bring your attention to the process known as a "Wisdom Council" developed by Jim Rough who also coined the term that he uses "dynamic facilitation". (You will find other videos at Veoh which explains this approach as well as others.) There are twelve pri...

Be a Better Leader – HBR April Issue Online

Special limited time offer: Access the entire April issue of Harvard Business Review free of charge, this month at HBR.org. While the feature article on Google is an interesting read, we recommend Stewart D. Friedman's article (video below) and Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad: It’s a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective, scope, and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t, neither can anyone els...

Trouble at the Summit

By guest writer Mary Jo Asmus, President, Aspire Collaborative Services High achievers may exhibit what George Parsons and Richard Pascale have described in Harvard Business Review as “Summit Syndrome”. We notice this phenomenon when an employee with an outstanding career becomes stagnant; or worse, she may sabotage her career by initiating unproductive arguments, failure to collaborate, or neglect for completing assignments. At its worst, the employee with this syndrome may become a candidate...