From the course: Using Emotions to Leverage and Accelerate Change: A Guide for Leaders
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Growth made possible through conscious choice
From the course: Using Emotions to Leverage and Accelerate Change: A Guide for Leaders
Growth made possible through conscious choice
- Somewhere, somehow you have to realize that you are responsible for what happens to you. You cannot blame anybody for it. These are the words of James Baldwin, a prolific novelist, playwright, poet, speaker, and civil rights activist. You're responsible for what happens to you. I believe this could be a guiding principle in the game of change. Though it's important to recognize, there are certainly changes we experienced in our careers completely outside our control. Changes like an increased workload without additional resources to support or new productivity targets, requiring you to terminate a certain percentage of your workforce. Or even a significant shift in your industry that ultimately puts you out of a job. But whether change greets you, thanks to a personal invitation or not, how you experience that change is solely up to you. We're responsible for how we experience big changes in our lives and subsequently…
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