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Thought Tweet #667

by Rick Baker
On Feb 5, 2013

Thought Tweet #667 Business leaders need to help their people adapt by creating Change-Opportunities


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Leaders are in the best position to create Change-Opportunities. If leaders don’t create Change-Opportunities then their best workers will…by seeking work elsewhere or becoming entrepreneurs. If leaders don’t create Change-Opportunities then their best clients will…by seeking a new supplier.

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Change: Creating Positive Change | Solutions & Opportunities | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #666

by Rick Baker
On Feb 4, 2013

Thought Tweet #666 You cannot force a round talent into a square task.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape." Mark Twain

And...

Too often we focus on roles as if they are a singular or homogeneous thing. We do better when we treat roles as a package of different tasks, some stand-alone tasks, some interpersonal tasks. People succeed in roles when their talents and strengths mesh with the tasks in the roles. [and, of course, the people have an achievement-oriented attitude]

And... 

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STRENGTHS: People-Focused for Success | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #665

by Rick Baker
On Feb 1, 2013

Thought Tweet #665 Do you know the nature of the relationships between the talents and work-tasks?


The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Talents tend to bounce off tasks.

This is especially true when talents first meet tasks...talents often resist new tests.

And bounce off is predictable when talents meet repeated defeats at the hands of tasks...after repeated defeats, talents will avoid tasks at all costs.

It's like talents have egos of their own.

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STRENGTHS: People-Focused for Success | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #664

by Rick Baker
On Jan 31, 2013

Thought Tweet #664 Are we doomed to a massive adaptational breakdown?

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

"...the roaring current of change, a current so powerful today that it overturns institution, shifts our values and shrivels our roots"

"...we are doomed to a massive adaptational breakdown"

Alvin Toffler, `Future Shock`, (1970)


PS: I think not...just a period of adaptational confusion.

Thought Tweet #663

by Rick Baker
On Jan 30, 2013

Thought Tweet #663 When using the past to predict the future, choose only the proper pieces of your past as guides.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

People love to make predictions... https://rickbaker.ca/post/2012/12/18/Thought-Tweet-632.aspx

"Rational behavior, in particular, depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment."

Alvin Toffler, 'Future Shock', (1970)

 

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Change: Creating Positive Change | Thought Tweets

Thought Tweet #662

by Rick Baker
On Jan 29, 2013

Thought Tweet #662 Unknowns: it's a good thing we only have to deal with them when we solve problems, do tasks, & think creatively.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

I've read there are 3 types of knowledge:

  • knowledge we know we know
  • knowledge we know we don't know
  • knowledge we don't know we don't know
If we didn't have those things we know then everything would be unknown.

 

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Humour | Thinking as in Think and Grow Rich | Thought Tweets

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