In teaching, we often distinguish between skill and will. If a student isn’t achieving, we try to diagnose whether it’s a matter of skill, will, or both. If a student doesn’t know how or hasn’t had enough access to instruction or practice, it’s more than likely a matter of skill. On the other hand, when […]
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Introduction All change efforts begin with the recognition that something just isn’t working. Sometimes the solution is clear, but often people can only agree on the pain being caused by the problem. How the problem is solved often depends on the skills of the leader. Vision vs. Process Leaders who are particularly strong at developing
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Big ideas are inherently exciting. They offer a new way of thinking of an old problem, a more elegant solution to a persistent challenge, or create the ability to do something previous thought impossible. Yet by definition, they are imaginary; not easily translated from idea to reality. Some big ideas require technical strategies (think: creating
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Everyone seems to know that the reason some ideas fail while others succeed is “implementation”—but what, specifically, makes the difference between an innovation achieving maturity and fizzling out before it hits adolescence? If you’re an entrepreneur, an intreprenuer, or a leader in charge of launching new work, you may have done some homework and found
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Nature often gives us cues that our modern life makes easy to miss. Taking a pause in the natural world for just a moment reveals that nearly everything follows a cycle. The earth rotates a revolution that repeats each day and follows a path that repeats every year. Weather follows seasons. Plants sprout, grow, die,
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We tackle many kinds of change projects at Outside Angle—everything from helping new start-ups grow to helping organizations pivot in the face of a shifting landscape to supporting visionary leaders in realizing their big ideas. Across all project types and sizes, we continue to find value in organizing complex work into purposeful change cycles. These
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The funny thing about problem-solving is that it is an inevitable responsibility in a world filled with uncertainty, but many people swing toward making problem-solving all of their job or none of it rather than putting it in its proper place.
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The purpose of cultivating understanding of others peoples’ needs and aligning organizational capacity accordingly is to establish the foundation for doing hard things together. That applies at every level.
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… Process is not about setting immutable rules or micromanaging the specific steps that every individual or team will take to move from today’s reality to tomorrow’s vision—it’s about showing people that changes in their behavior have the power to bend the trajectory of the organization and perhaps the world around them.
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Relational trust is the secret ingredient in any good change recipe. It doesn’t guarantee results in itself, but without it, the result is almost always going to be unsavory. This is true because at its essence, change leadership is about people.
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