Step 3: Fulfilling our potential & a metaphor for life

Contents: 1. Thought of the week 2. Top change management reading List

Check out Step 1 for an introduction to this series, Link.

Thought of the week ...

Since I was about 18 I have used a metaphor for the good times, the bad times, and the journey we all take through life. Seeing life as a highway with multiple destinations. You could choose to get off at your desired stop and stick around for a while. Growing experience, finding nice connections, and refueling for the journey ahead. Not really knowing where this highway ultimately leads, allowing doubt and procrastination to set in. Maybe one of these stops feels homey and safe, we stay too long. But if we are dedicated enough to self-growth and the journey we get on the road again. Suddenly we see many small roads, mysterious side shoots into the unknown. Probably we should follow one of these just to keep things interesting, to test the questions and ultimately feel a little hardship to check we are really living. When followed they are full of potholes and barriers with no good place to go. One can experience a bumpy ride for a while until fresh air and sunlit blue light enter the scene once more. You made it back to the highway, and freedom to put the car roof down, joy-riding your own potential.

This is a continual cycle that slows with self-knowledge and that the road doesn't always need to be tested because it feels good. Stops are good to rejuvenate but if there's no room for the further learning you need or desire, then it's time to move on. If things are meant to be then they will present themselves again further down the road.

Top 8 list

1. Mental model: This is a great resource of models and prompts for your projects: Link
2. A brilliant interview about change management and the application of agile in a creative and holistic way: Link
3. Are project managers also change managers? This webinar from APMG explores the theme. The webinar is a recording on the following link.
4. This LinkedIn post is a great Nudge example: Link
5. How Japanese philosophy can help with your change projects: Link
6. Article exploring the successful change process and business agility: Link
7. Article 'The New Technology of Teams: How Organizational Network Analysis Can Increase Team Collaboration' by @Francisco Marin: Link
8. Article: 'How to Stay Focused If You’re Assigned to Multiple Projects at Once', by Heidi K. Gardner and Mark Mortensen: Link
9. Article about the Goldilocks principle and how it relates to change management projects. I am still playing with ideas from reading this one: Link

I am a little further than the beginning, not quite at the end and little surprises along the road keep me constantly entertained. Join me in the next 'Bridging the Gap'. Spread the word fellow traveler,

Greetings Isolde