How do people react to change? Some Facts and Figures So how much do we know about people's reactions to change? I've been collecting reactions to change of individuals in my coaching and research for several years. The data below come from over 600 responses to my online tests (except where indicated) - the ...
The history of mankind can be understood through our reactions to complexity in the pre-machine, primitive machine, industrial and information technology eras. In the the pre-machine era, complexity arose from our familiar surroundings and the challenge of feeding, nuturing and protecting ourselves and our groups. The immediacy of these challenges and the limited opportunities or hazards ...
I want to share a resource I've been working on over the last week called the Edge of Chaos Posters. I've designed a couple of posters that try to illustrate the idea of the relationship between certainty and uncertainty. I decided to select words that in some way illustrate the ideas of certainty and uncertainty, order ...
What does uncertainty mean to you? To many uncertainty is a threat to be avoided or overcome. To others it offers surprise and opportunity. For some it is both of these things depending upon the context. Uncertainty has a love-hate relationship with planning. On the one hand uncertainty is one of the major reasons people make ...
How long has there been serious interest in goal setting? You might be forgiven for thinking it has always been a key approach to changing human behavior. However according to PsycInfo (the largest and most authoritative database on published psychological research), between 1900 and 1980, a search of this data base on the terms "goal ...
Shiftwork is the work we have to do to manage, thrive and survive in a world where shift happens. I've identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here), so far I've addressed the first six, and in this post, I address the seventh shift. The earlier ones you can read by following these ...
Shiftwork is the work we all have to do to manage, survive and thrive in the face of a world where Shift Happens. I've identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here) and the first shift (see here) and second shift (see here) below I give a few tips about how to achieve the ...
