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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Change happens, or is enacted, one person at a time. Honest.
As one of my mentors says: “If you want to change people, change people.”
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.”
I prefer the much more cynical version
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