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On Culture - How Things Don't Change
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On Culture - How Things Don't Change

On specks and planks and solving problems in the actual world.
Mike Sherman
Nov 05, 2022
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Susan James and I talk about change and why we want it for other people. And how we resist it for us (the only thing we typically can change in any equation).

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How Things Don't Change
View This dispatch starts with some discussion of politics and elections, but it isn't really about politics and elections. Politics and elections, as they are in our current context, seem like a good illustration for what this dispatch is really about. It is about (as the title suggests) how things don’t change…
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Ronald Heifetz: The nature of adaptive leadership (Thanks to Trey Herweck of Refuge Church in St. Charles, MO for directing me to Heifetz’s work.)

Every political ad ever.

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