The Six Secrets of Change

1. Systems Change Conference 2008 The Six Secrets of Change

2. Give me a good theory over a strategic plan any day of the week.

3. Good theories are succinct. Action based ideas are best expressed in five pages rather than fifty.

4. A theory is merely a way of organizing ideas that seem to make sense of the world. A good theory explains not how you want the world to work, but how it actually works.

5. The world has become too complex for any theory to have certainty.

6. secrets which are hard to grasp in their deep meaning and difficult to act on in combination

7. 1. Love Your Employees Fair TreatmentEnabling AchievementCamaraderie

8. 2. Connect Peers With Purpose social glueToo Tight too loose dilemmaonly dead fish go with the flow

9. 3. Capacity Building Prevails Once you get good people in the door, you had better offer them something good

10. What’s your secret?

11. 4.Learning is the Work Consistency and innovationBeing “All Over” Best PracticesDeep Learning at Work

12. 5.Transparency Rules Openness about resultsopenness about best practicesimmeasurement

13. 6. Systems Learn Many leadershumilityconfidence

14. Guidelines for Action Act and talk as if you were in control and project confidence. Take some credit and some blame. Talk about the future. Be specific about the few things that matter and keep repeating them.

15. People refer to gurus because they don’t know how to spell charlatan.

16. What’s your secret?

17. Love Your EmployeesConnect Peers With PurposeCapacity Building PrevailsLearning Is The WorkTransparency RulesSystems Learn

18. Probably the two greatest failures of leaders are indecisiveness in times of urgent need for action and dead certainty that they are right in times of complexity.

19. Wisdom The ability to act with knowledge, while doubting what you know.

20. Happiness Happiness does not arise from the achievement of a given purpose, but from the sense of purpose itself.

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