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CANCER CURED – CHAPTER III - A Flood Can Be a Healing

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Nov 18, 2024

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CANCER CURED – CHAPTER III - A Flood Can Be a Healing

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Topics: change, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose, Cancer Cured, Dr. Joe Dispensa, CANCER CURED BOOK, The Prosperity Secret of the Ages

CHANGE – Begins with New Thoughts

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 19, 2024

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On August 1^st I wrote My Thoughts Gave Me Cancer.

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Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, change, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose, Cancer Cured, Change Your Culture, Neuro Change Solutions, Dr. Joe Dispensa

Change – Your People, AI, and Your Future

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 12, 2024

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We just finished examining Robert Steven Kaplan’s What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential

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Topics: People, change, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose, People Development, Artificial Intenlligence (AI), Can You Predict the Future?, Dr. Joe Dispensa

First Step to Change - Where Do You Currently Stand

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 18, 2023

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Topics: change, Your Cash Flow Story, Christine Comaford, Accelerate Change by Getting Accountability Right, Change Your Culture, Four Decision Needs Assessment

Change Your Culture - Admit Your Mistakes

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 23, 2022

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Many leaders find it difficult to admit their mistakes. They feel when they make mistakes, they are more vulnerable, risk losing respect, and the authority they need to lead.

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Topics: change, Effective Leadership, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Leadership Decisions, Mistakes, Change Your Culture

Why & How Rackspace Changed Its Strategy

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 11, 2019

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Can a business with lousy service reverse their strategy to become fanatical about customer support?

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Topics: Switch, change, strategy, strategy decisions, Strategy - How, Rackspace

Quit Before Leaving – How to Handle Dissatisfying Situations

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 22, 2018

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HOWTODEAL Dissatisfying Situations.png When you lead or manage a business for any length of time, you find people in your organization who have attitude problems.

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Topics: employee engagement, change, Performance Management, Mastering Leadership

Change is Good - How to Do It

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 28, 2017

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Change is Good!

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Topics: employee engagement, Decision-Making, change, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey, Effective Leadership

Bottom Line Change - Zingerman’s Deli (Atlanta Growth Summit)

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 13, 2016

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There was no PowerPoint to share, few metrics and no major book to push.

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Topics: change, Growth Summit, Execution, Ari Weinzweig

Aligned for Change

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Feb 29, 2016

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In Scaling Up and Mastering the Rockefeller Habits Verne Harnish’s preaches leadership is 1% Vision, 99% Alignment.

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Topics: change, Pace of Change, Scrum

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