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The Change Agent’s Challenge
While there are other ways to define the role of a Change Agent (CA), the CA’s most commonly assigned and practiced mandate is to bring about a pre-determined Change within a community. A CA is...
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The Predictor’s Paradox
Predict vb: To declare in advance “Can we predict the Future?” In many ways that’s a loaded question (it’s also redundant since we don’t ‘predict’ the present or the past). There’s an implicit...
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Can you Live with that?
Here’s a quick scenario. You’ve advertised a vacant position in your department and have received several hundred resumes — a dozen of which are excellent. You’ve decided one of them will become your...
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The Conference we’ll never Attend
Here’s the annual conference I’d love to attend:- “The World Conference on Failure” 20 Business and World Leaders honestly and openly discuss the decisions and actions which contributed to their...
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Forget the Turtles, its PEOPLE all the way down, and up.
I’m baffled… If I go to the Tim Hortons corporate site I read the following… “The Tim Horton Children’s Foundation was established in 1974 by Ron Joyce, Co-Founder of the Tim Hortons chain, to honour...
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On the Mechanics of one Election
Asimov’s classic “Foundation” is the purest form of SF. It takes a fundamental desire – our need to predict the future – then presents a “What if?” scenario and pushes it to the boundaries of belief....
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Change Management Interview
Something different. A few weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of being interviewed by George Torok for his radio show Business in Motion. It’s a one hour conversation on the topic of Change...
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Simple Wisdoms… Difficult Lessons?
We call them many things, from adages and aphorisms, to maxims, proverbs, old sayings and memorable quotations, but regardless of how we’ve labeled these sage old saws, they all deliver exactly the...
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Out! Out! Damn Pebble!
It requires no great skill to opine on what’s wrong with the world. All we need do is go about our lives, and pay attention to all that annoys and peeves us. Like a sharp pebble caught in a sandal,...
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Problem Solving Webinar – Today – August 14th 2008
Tricks, Traps and Tips for better Problem Solving Cost: Nada! Although you’re more than welcome to send me a note of appreciation and/or order some books as a way to support the costs of providing this...
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