7/23/2006

Battery Charging and Reflection

Yesterday evening we arrived to Lappeenranta and lake Saimaa. I have to say it is a beautiful scenario for battery charging. Even while the city was offering a festival (in finnish), I decided to take a day off from beer drinking and - well - read about change.

My book of choise, Fearless Change, by Ph.D's Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Manns, is of great value for anyone trying to get innovation diffused in organization. The book describes 48 patterns for driving and sustaining change. Many of the patterns we have found out during our journey. Among them a pattern "Time for Reflection" in which doctors recommend:

To learn from the past, take time at regular intervals to evaluate what is working well and what should be done differently.

This is excatly what we need to do again after the vacation.

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