Showing posts with label Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Change. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Changing Almost Anything

Tony Schwartz has an interesting article at the Harvard Business Review online on making change last. He outlines 6 key steps for changing almost anything.

Ingenious research by Roy Baumeister and others has demonstrated that our self-control is a severely limited resource that gets progressively depleted by every act of conscious self-regulation....Put simply, the more behaviors are ritualized and routinized — in the form of a deliberate practice — the less energy they require to launch, and the more they recur automatically

What follows are our six key steps to making change that lasts:

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2011/01/six-keys-to-changing-almost-an.html

How do you think this could apply to a corporate culture shift or switching business strategies?