I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
Interpretation
Small achievements can lead to significant overall progress.
This quote by Rosabeth Moss Kanter emphasizes the importance of recognizing and celebrating small victories in our endeavors. It suggests that even minor accomplishments and projects can accumulate and contribute significantly towards achieving larger goals, highlighting the value of incremental progress in both personal and professional settings.
In practice
During a team meeting to inspire colleagues about project management.
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.
Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.
Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch,_x000D_ _x000D_ She's good for the moment, but she's never enough
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