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Becoming a change agent
From the course: Management Tips
Becoming a change agent
Too often we waste our careers by using all of our energy to avoid failure. We're trained to listen to our parents, listen to our teachers, and then listen to our boss at work for forty years. If you do what you're told, you're rewarded. If you don't, you're usually made to regret it. It's funny, in our society it seems we do love to celebrate innovation and success, but strangely, we love to chastise failure even more. That's unfortunate since success requires tons of failure and learning. It's unavoidable and universal. We all face it. And it's illogical because every single successful product, service, process or technology was a failure before it was a success. It's ironic really, one of the primary reasons organizations stall and fail is because bureaucracies are designed to minimize risk and reduce variation. That's a bit odd, since it's an amazing act of risk taking and deviation that created every organization in the first place. The best leaders know this and start…
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Becoming a change agent2m 59s
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Finding targets for innovation2m 45s
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Assessing your organization's change readiness2m 50s
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Embracing failure2m 33s
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Developing your creativity3m 6s
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Breaking through with brainstorming3m 16s
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Embracing the devil's advocate2m 50s
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Managing creative talent3m 2s
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Fighting bureaucracy3m 6s
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Not all best practices are best2m 57s
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Diversity’s real power2m 6s
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Initiating change conversations2m 57s
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Creating needed debate3m 2s
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Knowing when to engage positive conflict2m 42s
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Myth of creative genius2m 44s
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Changing routines to build new thought2m 41s
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Making risk feel like learning2m 47s
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The difference between creativity and innovation3m 10s
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People don't hate change2m 47s
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Advocating for the unpopular2m 20s
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The upside of limited resources2m 54s
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Understanding change capacity2m 24s
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Picking a successful fight at work2m 19s
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Start, stop, change2m 44s
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