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Anyone who waits for the perfect environment misses opportunities to create
meaningful change. All organizations need to improve. Environments always fall
below ideal.

Change is less relevant in organizations that have it all together. The way to
achieve meaningful success is to make a mess better.

Frustration is healthy only when it moves you to make things better.

Anyone who uses an imperfect boss, team, or organization as an excuse to sit
on the sidelines squanders talent.

The messier your team the greater your opportunity for meaningful change.

Look for a mess if you aspire to produce meaningful change.

Change-makers pull back and consider the struggles and challenges of people.

Focus on people because people deliver results.

So develop people who deliver results.

Great leaders give themselves to people, not systems and programs.

5 questions for caring leaders:

1. What issues are others grappling with today?

2. What nagging frustrations drag team members down?

3. What unmet aspirations ignite an employee’s energy?

4. How could you fuel progress?

5. What barriers to success might you remove?

To “make a meaningful change” we have to understand what the change needs
to be? The direction the change will bring to the mess. More importantly
getting everyone to recognize what needs to be done and how we are going to
do it. It may help if you show a decision tree of if we do this, our intended
outcome is this, based on prior experiences tends to bring light to the

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