This document discusses leading and embracing change. It begins by stating that leadership involves assuming responsibility for engaging with others to pursue substantive changes that advance a shared purpose. It then discusses different types of change, including continuous change and radical change. A key point is that change is difficult because it requires getting people to behave differently. The document proposes using a "Rider/Elephant/Path" metaphor to enable change: the "Rider" is rational and provides planning/direction, the "Elephant" is emotional and provides energy, and shaping the "Path" means tweaking the environment. It provides tips for directly motivating the Rider and Elephant such as using destination postcards, scripts, finding feelings, shrinking changes, and pra
7. The Process of Leadership
Assume responsibility for the choice to
engage with others and use your influence
to pursue substantive changes that
advance a shared purpose
8. The Process of Leadership
Assume responsibility for the choice to
engage with others and use your influence
to pursue substantive changes that
advance a shared purpose
What is the hardest choice you have to make
when you participate in this process?
16. Law of Change
• “Change happens only as a result of
insurmountable market pressure”
Coine & Babbitt, 2014
• Are you applying the pressure or
reacting to it?
18. Discipline of The Second Curve
“..always assume that we are
near the peak of the first curve
and should therefore be starting
to prepare for the second” (p.57)
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22. For anything to change, someone has to start
acting differently. Can you get people to start
behaving differently? (p.4)
24. Rider - Rational
– Deliberates, analyzes,
looks into the future
– Provides planning and
direction
Elephant – Emotional
– Feels pain and pleasure
– Provides the energy
26. Destination
postcards:
Shows the Rider
where you are
headed and the
Elephant why the
journey is worthwhile
Change is easier
when you know where
you are going and why
it is worth it
33. Growth Mindset
• Talent is NOT fixed unless you
believe that it is. Treat talent as
something almost everyone can
earn, not that just a few people
own.
• Everyone can learn to work
smarter
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34. Motivate the Elephant
Change is hard because people wear
themselves out. What looks like
laziness is often exhaustion
35. Shape the Path
Tweak the environment. When the situation
changes, behavior changes
40. Shape the path
What looks like a people problem is
often a situation problem. When you
shape the path, you make the change
more likely, no matter what’s happening
with the Rider and the Elephant
41. The law of crappy
systems trumps
the law of crappy
people
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42. Application
• Identify a change that needs to happen right
now in your life or work. What are you going
to do about it tomorrow?
• Tell someone about your decision to change
• Think of ways to apply the
Rider/Elephant/Path metaphor to enable the
change
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