The pursuit of excellence insults those who like things as they are.
Short-term thinkers reject the pursuit of excellence. Stagnant organizations die because the pursuit of excellence hurts at first.
Hierarchy dislikes the pursuit of excellence because it offends snobbery.
Here are 4 alerts for leaders dedicated to the pursuit of excellence.
Change is hard because we make it hard.
Change your life by rejecting things that make change hard.
Impatience makes change frustrating.
Change your words. Change your life.
Change a routine. Change your life.
Change your friends. Change your life.
A leader in the financial sector told me that the change top brass is making benefits top brass, but no one else.
Leading change isn’t difficult, it’s dangerous. 70% of change initiatives fail. HBR
How can you unravel resistance to change?
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