Thursday, September 26, 2013

Leaders: You Need to Know the 13 Facts About CHANGE
Leaders: You Need to Know the 13 Facts About CHANGE
Change is harder than it needs to be because it’s more mysterious than it needs to be.
You’re probably trying to change something right now.

And—if you’re honest—you’ve already thought about backing off.
Change seems too difficult.

You’ve watched friends get hurt trying to lead similar change.
You’ve heard the voices of opposition get a little louder.
You really don’t want to be afraid to open your inbox every morning.

But what if this is true?


Change is harder than it needs to be because it’s more mysterious than it needs to be.

And it doesn’t need to be quite that mysterious.
Here’s what I believe about change.
Change has dynamics; and the dynamics can be learned.

Last year, I wrote a book about leading change while facing opposition and I’m working on several more books in the change series we’ll release over the next few years.

I’m passionate about change because I’ve lived through it and can vouch for the fact that change is more than possible.

I’m also passionate because if the church (and other organizations) are going to reach their potential, change isn’t optional, it’s necessary.

So, if you’re navigating change, here’s a short cheat sheet of 13 key principles that I hope will help you maintain clear thinking amidst the sea of emotions that leading change brings:

1. People aren’t opposed to change nearly as much as they are opposed to change they didn’t think of.


Everybody’s in favor of their own ideas, but most organizational change is driven by leadership. All real change is.

So you just need to realize that most people will come on board. You just need to give them time until a leader’s idea spreads widely enough to be owned.
And by the way, great ideas eventually resonate.

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