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Start, stop, change
- I'd like to share with you a classic management thinking exercise. I call it start, stop, change. When a team of professionals has become too comfortable censoring conversation, keeping ideas to themselves, and accepting the status quo, an activity like this can be very useful. The idea is simple. Have each participant imagine what it would be like to be in charge. Tell them, you're the boss. What you say happens. If you were the boss, and you really wanted to improve how your team functions, what would you do? What one thing might you start doing or have the team do? What might you stop doing? What might you continue but need to change? There is no perfect target for change. You simply want to think about low hanging fruit to begin. That means a change that is relatively easy to pull off. So your people are welcomed to think about policies and rules, resources, or specific interpersonal behaviors that need to change. The goal of the exercise is to identify overlapping areas about…
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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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