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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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…if you want to change things, you have to pay close attention to social signals, because they can either guarantee a change effort or doom it.

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…behavior is contagious at the individual level… and at the group level…

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…rally the support of others who in turn could influence those you hope to sway.

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…culture often is the linchpin of successful organizational change.

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Every culture, whether national or organizational, is shaped powerfully by its language.

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Reinforcement is the secret to getting past the first step of your long journey and on to the second, third, and hundredth steps.

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We need to be looking for bright spots – however tiny! – and rewarding them.

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…reinforcement does require you to have a clear view of the destination, and it requires you to be savvy enough to reinforce the bright spot behaviors when they happen.

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Change isn’t an event; it’s a process.

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To lead a process requires persistence.

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