How can we make ideas happen?

How can we make ideas happen?

Question # 1 Are you living your purpose?

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Question # 2 Are you setting and sharing goals?

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Question # 3 Are you trying out ideas at low costs?

Do cheap experiments

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Build a just try it culture - emphasize ”test and learn” instead of ”plan and execute.”

Hamel, Gary: The Future of Management, p. 120.

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Question # 4 Are you doing 1 thing at a time?

Focus on the 1 thing that will have the greatest impact.

Sources https://hbr.org/2009/10/i-lost-18-pounds-in.html https://hbr.org/2012/09/ten-ways-to-get-people-to-chan

Be specific about what to do.

https://hbr.org/2011/01/six-keys-to-changing-almost-an.html

Question # 5 Are you measuring innovation?

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Question # 6 Are you removing what you don’t want?

If there are no cookies in the house, we cannot eat cookies at 3 o’clock in the morning. http://time.com/3462103/you-read-about-change-never-change/

Question # 7 Are you being a role model?

http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la.html

One way we learn new ways of looking at things is to identify ourselves with a role model, boss, mentor, friend, or consultant, and begin to see things from that other person’s point of view.

Schein, Edgar H.: Process Consultation, p. 105.

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Question # 8 Are you funding good ideas?

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Question # 9 Are you using symbols that signal change?

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Question # 10 Are you using social media?

In more successful transformation efforts, executives use all existing

communication channels to broadcast the vision.

John Kotter.

http://hbr.org/2007/01/leading-change-why-transformation-efforts-fail/ar/2

Question # 11 Are you coaching people?

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Question # 12 Are you giving people feedback?

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Question # 13 Are you responding to negative expressions head-on?

Negative expression The idea is interesting, but it is not the right time.

We need to wait until‌.

Response The best time is almost always when you have people excited and committed to make something happen.

And that’s now. http://www.amazon.de/Buy-In-Saving-Your-Getting-ebook/dp/B003YL4KSA/, location 1430.

Negative expression We don’t really have the skills to do this.

Response We have much of what we need, and we can and will get the rest. Let’s go.

Adapted from http://www.amazon.de/Buy-In-Saving-Your-Getting-ebook/dp/B003YL4KSA/, location 1530.

Negative expression Your proposal doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Response Maybe, but our idea will get us started moving in the right direction and will do so without further delay. http://www.amazon.de/Buy-In-Saving-Your-Getting-ebook/dp/B003YL4KSA/, location 1200.

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Question # 14 Are you communicating passionately?

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand.

Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change.

https://hbr.org/2008/07/choosing-strategies-for-change

To get your ideas heard, be passionate, share your enthusiasm.

http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/managementtip.php?date=051211

Sources http://thehypertextual.com/2010/04/08/gary-hamels-pyramid-of-human-capabilities/ http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/2010/04/employee-traits-hierarchy-for-creative.htm

Gary Hamel

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Question # 15 Are you bringing in fresh inputs from outside?

Example When Jamie Oliver wanted to change the eating habits of kids at a school in the USA, he got their attention with a single, disgusting image:

A truckload of pure animal fat. https://hbr.org/2012/09/ten-ways-to-get-people-to-chan

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/09/ten_ways_to_get_people_to_chan.html

Internal change driver Emotional engagement focus

Rational engagement focus

External change driver

Emotional input from outside

Question # 16 Are you celebrating success?

3 ways to celebrate success 1. Write tweets praising people for what they do.

2. Write a handwritten note to people who have done great.

3. Invite a person out for a “walk and talk� with a cup of coffee.

Adapted from https://hbr.org/2014/02/coping-techniques-for-lonely-change-leaders

Celebrate successes using handwritten notes

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Question # 17 Are you asking for forgiveness rather than for permission?

If you see an opportunity, go for it!

Hamel, Gary: The Future of Management, p. 112.

Question # 18 Are you working with people who want change?

Surround yourself with people you want to be. http://time.com/3462103/you-read-about-change-never-change/