If we always look for someone who looks like what we’ve always hired for a role, we lose out on new perspectives. Harvard Business Review shows how “in the box” our thinking can be.

Our plans for change often involve a lot of math, a little physics and the hope of a little magic along the way. Just like dating,

You figured out the master plan to explode your team’s revenues, destroy the competition, and single-handedly catapult your company to the head of the Fortune 500 list. But before you roll it out to the troops, here are three things to figure out first!

Like every other business, public libraries have to redefine themselves in an era of ever-evolving technology. See how they redefine their role, and how they deliver their product.

Interview skills not only translate to job hunting, but to how you assess any project. Tell the truth or gild the lily?

Do, Deal with or Delegate? Because you lose sight of the goal when you’re always in the weeds. Or attempting perfection.

When you’re in a hole, stop digging. Here’s five ways to get started. Tomorrow is another day.

Part 3 of 3. It worked before. Now its not working. Why? Because your product is wearing the wrong clothes.

Part 2 of 3: You mistook a one-hit wonder for hall of fame success.

It was working, now its not working. Why? Part 1 of 3: The ground beneath your feet changed.

If you were suddenly being judged on what you got done this week, how would you fare?

Confirmation bias + Excess focus on the areas we know best (regardless of their importance) = Epic Failures a.k.a. Projects that consume a ton of energy and yield little in the way of results. Think it doesn’t happen to you? Hmmm…

Not running for political office this year? Then what does the election cycle have to do with you? Quite a bit.

Before you embrace the business theory of the month, run this little test. And call my friend Kimberly.

How to get Unstuck.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains. Crash Davis knew when not to settle. Do you?

Creating a project or product with all the bells and whistles is great. But what would happen if you kept it simple?

Are you guilty of any of these common mistakes?

What happens when you put a piece of YOU out there, your reputation, your business, your dream? Random worries that happen when you do.

Does our socialization of women lead to building businesses that are difficult to scale?

How you tell the story won’t just determine if you get to build your visionary idea. It will impact whether they think you even know what you’re doing.

Cross these things off your list.

Skip the Dysfunction Junction of the average team meeting. Let “The Workplace Therapist” Brandon Smith tell you how.

What if you kept a Failure Report? And showed it to the world? An antidote to burying your mistakes.

There’s always that one thing. You dance around it, design elaborate workarounds. It persists. It’s time.

See the bigger picture. Our Free “Field Guide” gives you some key questions to help widen your view beyond your department or division. It covers topics as diverse as “Power Players” “Who’s Buying, Who’s Paying, Who’s Watching”, “Revenue Streams” “People Culture” “Technology” “Bomb Dropping” and a few others you need to know.

A very fun app. Apply it to your biggest life problems. And which road to take.

Whena stiff scotch or pretzels dipped in Nutella won’t cut it, try these five things.

Lean Intrapreneurship in corporate settings, a presentation by Carl Danneels.

If it was simple then everyone would do it. Great insights from Seth Godin.

Using Lean startup Techniques in a government agency, what’s different? what do you need to consider? Will it work? And how using the wrong Acco Clip can lead to total anarchy.

A visit with the Brussels Tech community…what are they doing differently?

One of the hardest things to do in public is to admit you are wrong. With the advances in social media and technology, it’s entirely possible that you can claim you’ve fixed something only to have live pictures scrolling alongside you on screen proving the opposite. Try not to do that.

Getting unstuck when the “golden handcuffs” are getting a bit tight.

Brussels February 5, 2014. Jeanne Goldie and Carl Danneels at the Brussels Enterprise Agency

Most projects don’t progress in a straight line. A+B+C does not always yield instant success. And sometimes what is created is an entirely different animal than the one you expected to create. And sometimes you fail.

You need it. They have it. They don’t want to share. How are you going to get it? How to have the conversation and not kill your career.

Start the new year off right? What can you do today to make next year look even brighter?

Sometimes showing a picture of a cute panda just won’t cut it.

You’ve gotten the green light. The executive committee signed off. Everyone held hands, blessed the plan and said “Go Forth and create this change!” So why the heck isn’t anyone listening to anything you say?

I thought having to blow my nose on a co-workers sleeve in the middle of the desert was a career low point. Let’s hear from the crew at Lenny Dykstra Toyota.

You blew the budget. And now it’s time to face the music. How to have that conversation.

Making change from a users perspective, from the great Tara Hunt.

They’re sticking their heads in the sand, why? Let Torbin Rick explain it in this simple infographic.

The news isn’t good. It may not even be what they’re expecting to hear. Making a tough call isn’t easy and the conversation won’t be either.

What can a mild mannered science teacher teach us about employee engagement, brand management and marketing? Quite a bit.

Corey-Jan Albert of Relish Marketing talks about rolling out your brand strategy to your stakeholders.

How a government shut down can impact your business and others. Are you as diversified as you think?

What’s your pitch? Is it still as relevant today as when you originally crafted it?

Sometimes we don’t notice the changes until it’s too late. Ask yourself these questions.

Are you really buildng a pizza roll?

In 1982, in his world and mine, Channel 13 was PBS and we assumed everyone would know that. We were wrong.

It’s great to have a vision, but how do you get buy-in? According to Tim Ferriss, it’s your ability to have the uncomfortable conversations. Read the series.

When your predecessor sucked…how not to let that disaster impact you. 8 good rules to know from Bob Whipple.

Are you still working towards your goal or are you lost in the busywork. How to watch for the distractions that come during difficult projects.

Steve Simpsonteaches what you can read into a corporate culture just by observing their meetings. Learn to take an organization’s hidden culture into account when you’re the presenter.

The Do’s and Don’ts of getting your point across if you’re following the Fulton County Rat Poison lady and a freight train rolls through…

Julie Fleming coaches lawyers on how to become rainmakers. Here are the skills we all need to get better at biz dev.

Do businesses and employees have a “set point”? How does that impact you? Is your team headed back to their comfort zone?

The dirty secret of being an effective change agent. What should you do when your work is done?

It’s rare to get dramatic results overnight. Some days a victory may even consist of “At least Joe in Accounting only rolled his eyes three times when we were presenting.”

You are standing in the shadow of all the ghosts who enacted change, or attempted to, with the same group. Some insight from Seth Godin.

There is a time for elegant fixes. Breathtaking strategies that will Wharton case studies for generations to come. And there are times when only duct tape will do.

What is everyone around you working hard not to “see.” Pointing it out can be career suicide.

The secret weapon used by corporate strategists and effective non profit/ NGO leaders.

A Human Calculator, a Historian and a Fixer went into a bar…here’s the change strategy they built.

Want to know what levers you’ll be able to move and what resources you can access to execute your brilliant strategy? Start here.

Why you need to run the overall value of any planned activity or change against the resources it will use up. And what is has to do with Joseph Schumpeter’s quest to be the the greatest lover in Vienna.

Once you start drinking the corporate KoolAid, your vision becomes narrowed. What are you missing? You had the answer once.

What sort of pill are you having everyone swallow? And what are the side effects?

Change Strategist Jeanne Goldie shares her ten rules for launching an organizational turnaround. Plus the top secret bonus rule you need to be aware of on day one.

Leading a Change Team? You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Let’s make a souffle instead.