Every semester, it seems like there is never enough time available to accomplish the really important projects or goals, and they all end up crammed into the end of the semester or in the tiny breaks between terms. McChesney et al. (2016) calls this phenomenon the “whirlwind” (pp. 6–9). This whirlwind of our jobs and […]
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Influencer Strategy
For the last three weeks, I have been reading Influencer to learn how certain behaviors can influence personal and organizational change. Identifying these specific vital behaviors is critical to successfully getting people on-board with any sort of major change. Grenny et al. (2013) states, “master influencers know that it only takes a few behaviors to […]
Why, How, What?
When Simon Sinek discusses the Golden Circle in his 2009 TED Talk, he asks three basic questions in this order: why, how, and what? He suggests that by starting with “why” in the center of the circle, “we can think, act, and communicate from the inside out” (Briginshaw, 2013). Having a clear understanding of why […]
Innovation Plan
The simplest definition of disruptive innovation is from Clayton Christensen when he stated, “you transform something that used to be complicated and expensive so that only a few people had access to it, and now you make it so affordable and accessible that a whole new population of people now have access.” One of the […]