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How to Change Things when Change is Hard

By Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Year Published: 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52875-7
Categories: Change, Influence, Results

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…in situations where change is needed, too much analysis can doom the effort.

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…understanding a problem doesn’t necessarily solve it – that knowing is not enough.

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…anytime you have a bright spot, your mission is to clone it.

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Big problems are rarely solved with commensurately big solutions.

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To pursue the bright spots is to ask the question ‘What’s working, and how can we do more of it?’

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People pay closer attention to the bad stuff, reflect on it more, remember it longer, and weigh it more heavily in assessing the person overall.

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We need to switch from archeological problem solving to bright-spot evangelizing.

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Even in failure there is success.

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More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan.

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Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn’t likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change – the paralyzing part – is precisely in the details.

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