Reach your audacious goals as
easily as your “normal” goals
As I’ve been teaching people how to engage in Possibilities Thinking™ (the Steve Jobs mindset that sees possibilities where others see limitations), I had an insight I’d like to share with you. Most of our goals can be reached by doing what we've already been doing … plus a little bit more, a little bit better and a little bit faster. Some goals, however, seem impossible; nothing we’ve ever done in the past is likely to be sufficient to reach them. What if we could become as effective in reaching these “impossible” goals as we already are in reaching our [...]
What is the relationship between personal and organizational transformation?
I wrote about three types of organizational change in my book, Re-create Your Life, many years ago. Let me draw from several passages in that book because the business applications of this distinction should make the personal applications I wrote about last week even clearer. Organizations, as well as individuals, require all three types of change to be successful. First order change in an organization consists of improving on what already is. It usually consists of finding ways to do things a little better, faster or easier. It results in incremental improvements consistent with the existing culture of the organization [...]
