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.
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are. We're all certainly responsible for what we do, but failing doesn't make us bad people and succeeding doesn't make us omniscient.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.
Sometimes my mistake has been hesitancy about acting on the decisions I've made. When's the best time to invest? It's today, not tomorrow.
I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
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