thinking about change

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thinking about change

• with
• Stacey Aldrich
• Santa Clara County Public Library
• Staff Day 2008

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May 16, 2019

• the day change ends!

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finding information
Cell Phone
Internet
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G E T I N F O
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Library
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TIME
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Wired - Found
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To find Orbit around a corporate Hairball is to
find a place of balance where you benefit from
the physical, intellectual and philosophical
resources of the organization without
becoming entombed in the bureaucracy of
the institution. page 33
But if you allow that same gravity to suck you
into the bureaucratic Hairball, you will find
yourself in a different kind of nothingness. The
nothingness of a normalcy made stagnant by a
compulsion to cling to past successes. The
nothingness of the Hairball. page 33
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• Move from Deficit-Based thinking to Asset-Based
  thinking (ABT)
• Magnify Whats Best, Focus on Whats next.
• Use positive filters to get more traction when
  interacting with others.
• The wider the lens, the better the view.

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• Its all invented!
• Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a
  difference, accepting that you may not understand
  how or why.
• Rule Number 6
• How Fascinating!

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• There is no plan.
• Think strengths not weaknesses.
• Its not all about you.
• Persistence trumps talent.
• Make excellent mistakes.
• ..read the book ?

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• Life style design
• Ask yourself, what would you do if there were no
  way you could fail?
• Doing something unimportant well does not make it
  important.
• Am I being productive or just active?
• Do not work harder when the solution is working
  smarter.

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Find cool tools!
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Thank you!
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Personal Reactions to Change
REFLECTIVE REALISTS
REFLECTIVEINNOVATORS
Lets keep it
Lets look at it
Lets do it together
CONTINUITY
VISION
ACTION REALISTS
ACTION INNOVATORS
Lets get it done
Lets change it
RESULTS
SYSTEMS CHANGE
Source Schreiber Shannon Associates, 2008