Data & Decision-Making: A match made in heaven or….?

How do we create a more harmonious marriage between intuition and data in our decision-making practices?  What does it really take to effectively use data to improve our projects and our operations? Includes a series of reflection questions to help you better understand how you currently use data and analytics in your work, and where you may want to focus in the future.

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How can I be more clear?

The ability to clearly formulate and express ideas is critical to successful implementation efforts.  If you weren't born with it, how do you develop it? I've identified five common practices and one overarching truth about achieving clarity.  If you can accept this truth — Clarity takes effort — then the five practices outlined in this post should help you.  

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Wayfinding tips for Change Managers

Through recent experiences hiking in the California desert, I've learned a lot about being lost and finding my way again.  These wayfinding lessons have proven to be useful in areas of my life beyond hiking — including my work in strategic change.  If you find yourself leading an organizational change that’s gotten off course, these tips may be just what you need to get back on track.

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The difference between 'doing' and 'achieving'.

There is a growing body of evidence that how we implement a new practice, or program, affects the outcomes we see as a result.   In other words, the way you do it, impacts what you get out of it.  Implementation science offers methods that help us to better ensure we get the intended benefits from the new practices we adopt.  In this post, I discuss three concepts from implementation science that I have found particularly useful. 

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