High Velocity Change
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...surrendering to change does the most to eliminate stress; creating opportunity for breakthrough rather than breakdown. It's strength becomes ours. ..instead of seeing it as an adversary.. align with it, use it, allow it to become your greatest ally.
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Change is heavy duty stuff. Not the sort of challenge you take on simply because it sounds good, or because it's the "in" thing to do. We do it because what worked isn't anymore, or that we want to shift to another level, embrace another level... or if smart enough, we do it before we have to, knowing we must to maintain a competitive edge, a relationship, a career, a home.
Most don't have the foresight to shift before their world forces it upon them. Some start, but lose determination along the way, while others dabble in so much that they lose track of their destiny.
Change, shifts, overhauls, cultural transformations can't be done without some pain, chaos, and uncomfortableness. Shifting correctly, the payoff is worth the price of admission.
Follow the guidelines given here, and you can achieve dramatic shifts in record time. It just might be the best way for you to protect your future.
1) You'll have trouble creating the "new" if you insist on doing it in ways consistent with the "old". The "old" rules are probably part of the problem. Defy tradition. Disregard norms. Let go of relics of an antiquated "way". Be alien to the status quo.
2) Focus on the Future. Analyzing your present is like going to history class, when you could learn more from studying the future.
3) Deliberately Destabilize. Hit with enough shock effect to immobilize the “old” at least temporarily.
4) Care Harder. Care enough to take yourself through the tough, unpopular so it can excel. Trying not to disturb can be the cruelest move of all.
5) Set Higher Standards. Raise the bar; focus on higher octane energy than resistance to change.
6) Measure, Reward. Celebrate results, spotlight poor and expose.
7) Change needs to be a cause, a crusade, and your job is to champion the vision.
8) Simplify. Get rid of worn out rules, free yourself.
9) Crank up communication with yourself, with others. Standard communication simply won’t cut it.
10) Expect Casualties.
11) Demonstrate Unwavering Commitment. Be dead serious to see it through.
12) Involve Everyone. Insist on involvement.
13) Be a Living Example. Consider yourself on display.
14) Build Momentum. Hard results talk louder than words or intangibles.
15) Create a “new” breed, a new culture.
16) Lose the uncommitted. People who are uncommitted don’t strengthen you.
17) You cannot achieve change without the influence of deviant, rebel, radical, revolutionary, howling, eccentricity.
18) Orient, Educate, Train.
19) Go ALL Out. Leave skid marks.
