Dear Becky and Joe,
I appreciate the specific action recommendations listed in your article and your leadership. For any of us to be true change agents in the world, we are called to acknowledge the briers that keep us mired. I will be sharing your article with my fellow board members to facilitate our bold vision for childcare/child development in Calgary. Thank you.
With Regard,
Teresa Magrath
hi Teresa - You’re so right. We like to think of this as facing into what is real, what is actually happening right now, in order to then be able to choose something different. So happy this has applications for childcare/child development in Calgary!
Becky
Thank you for this excellent review of these leadership lessons. The practical behaviours are particularly helpful illustrations of how to practice ideas many leaders may have heard but often find difficult to implement.
This is so helpful and relevant for our work in education, a field new to improvement work and one that is trying to move forward while battling large-scale policy mandates and teacher burnout. Thank you for sharing!
Dear Becky and Joe,
Thank you for the really helpful article. Whilst we recognize and value the role of bureaucracy, we also want the agility and impact of the system you describe. Perhaps the goal is to get the best of both worlds? Do you agree that John Kotter’s “Accelerate” work gives a ‘blue print’ for such a balancing act?
Thank you! This piece is a great pivot from my current environment- and something to strive for in my professional future! This road map for successful motion in social change was invigorating- although, I wonder if older generations of professionals long-entrenched in a work day mined with meeting preparation, painstaking task check-ins, and fear of calamity can adjust to this way of thinking…
This is a wonderful set of lessons and recommendations. It is so friggin’ simple and clear what you say, no wonder I’ve overlooked it for so long: if you really want to bring about change, one of the things that has to change is the way you approach this task! And in this short piece you not only tell us what we need to do, but, and more importantly, how to do it.
I love the way you described ‘recognition economy’. How simple and practical is that and yet overlooked. This would be one step (especially in my industry) would truly motivate staff to keep going irrespective of times being adverse.
Thank you!
COMMENTS
BY Teresa Magrath
ON January 21, 2015 05:54 PM
Dear Becky and Joe,
I appreciate the specific action recommendations listed in your article and your leadership. For any of us to be true change agents in the world, we are called to acknowledge the briers that keep us mired. I will be sharing your article with my fellow board members to facilitate our bold vision for childcare/child development in Calgary. Thank you.
With Regard,
Teresa Magrath
BY Becky Margiotta
ON January 23, 2015 09:57 AM
hi Teresa - You’re so right. We like to think of this as facing into what is real, what is actually happening right now, in order to then be able to choose something different. So happy this has applications for childcare/child development in Calgary!
Becky
BY Robert Varnam
ON January 27, 2015 12:01 AM
Thank you for this excellent review of these leadership lessons. The practical behaviours are particularly helpful illustrations of how to practice ideas many leaders may have heard but often find difficult to implement.
BY Anna Kawar
ON January 27, 2015 03:32 PM
This is so helpful and relevant for our work in education, a field new to improvement work and one that is trying to move forward while battling large-scale policy mandates and teacher burnout. Thank you for sharing!
BY Jonathon Gray
ON January 28, 2015 09:41 PM
Dear Becky and Joe,
Thank you for the really helpful article. Whilst we recognize and value the role of bureaucracy, we also want the agility and impact of the system you describe. Perhaps the goal is to get the best of both worlds? Do you agree that John Kotter’s “Accelerate” work gives a ‘blue print’ for such a balancing act?
BY Nancy Cole
ON January 29, 2015 11:51 AM
Thank you! Very insightful. I’m really looking forward to learning more about this from you at The Carnegie Summit in March.
BY Samantha Alves
ON February 10, 2015 12:48 PM
Thank you! This piece is a great pivot from my current environment- and something to strive for in my professional future! This road map for successful motion in social change was invigorating- although, I wonder if older generations of professionals long-entrenched in a work day mined with meeting preparation, painstaking task check-ins, and fear of calamity can adjust to this way of thinking…
Thank You!
BY Mark Rosenberg
ON January 2, 2019 09:47 AM
This is a wonderful set of lessons and recommendations. It is so friggin’ simple and clear what you say, no wonder I’ve overlooked it for so long: if you really want to bring about change, one of the things that has to change is the way you approach this task! And in this short piece you not only tell us what we need to do, but, and more importantly, how to do it.
Mark Rosenberg
BY Sharmily Yogananth
ON May 25, 2021 07:55 AM
I love the way you described ‘recognition economy’. How simple and practical is that and yet overlooked. This would be one step (especially in my industry) would truly motivate staff to keep going irrespective of times being adverse.
Thank you!