April 29, 2005

fast company mention

Both Focu­sed Per­for­mance and gaping­void were men­tio­ned today over at Fast Com­pany for this whole cul­ture vs. tech­no­logy thing:

The res­pec­tive entries — and the com­ments they’ve attrac­ted so far — reso­nate well with the May issue’s cover story: Change or Die. As part of a wide-ranging analy­sis of how peo­ple are wired in terms of change, John Kot­ter, a Har­vard Busi­ness School pro­fes­sor, offers, “The cen­tral issue is never stra­tegy, struc­ture, cul­ture, or sys­tems. The core of the mat­ter is always about chan­ging the beha­vior of people.”

Thanks for the men­tion, Heath.

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6 Responses to “fast company mention”

  1. Jon Husband says:

    Change hap­pens, or is enac­ted, one per­son at a time. Honest.

  2. Rockster says:

    As one of my men­tors says: “If you want to change peo­ple, change people.”

  3. niti says:

    I would take that one step further, Rocks­ter, “If you want to change peo­ple, change your­self first, then peo­ple res­pond to that change in you, thus chan­ging their behaviour.”

  4. Rockster says:

    I pre­fer the much more cyni­cal ver­sion :)

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