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Preview Thursday: Intelligent Disobedience

Lead Change Blog

The following is an excerpt from Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do is Wrong. Many, if not most, orders to do the wrong thing concern meeting numerical quotas or goals. Edwards Deming, warned us of this pitfall. Maybe you misinterpreted what you were being asked to do.

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Resistance to Change. Fear of Punishment for Incompetence

Mike Cardus

What kind of collusion and hidden mistakes and sabotage are you creating by doing that?”. Sometimes there should be negative reinforcement for not doing your job. There needs to be positive reinforcement for doing your job. Edwards Deming. Find what is working and highlight PLUS do more of it. The managers nodded….

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17 Leadership Role Models Who Get Results That Last

Let's Grow Leaders

Who is your favorite role model and which of the 7 roles do you think they exhibit particularly well? His career is marked by consistently helping individuals and teams and his company do better. “Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.” These gentlemen do what great leaders do. Follow John.