Anne Winn

Just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s wrong. It might just be more real and true than what you consider to be acceptable. “Touch-feely” is creepy in a variety of ways. When I even think about it, I make an involuntary cringe face. A significant effort is made on my part not to use these words… and also not to roll my eyes when others do. Working in Organizational Change Management, it gets tiring to hear people talk about the human-centric work we do as “Kumbaya” or...

Yes, I know I have been a strategist for a long time. My success rates are relatively high as I think of strategies as infrastructure and direction; I create for uncertainty. They are designed to illuminate the field and provide action steps for navigating obstacles. I have invested time, energy, and sometimes my heart and soul into being a better strategist; to enhance my natural capability for the work. But, as we shift into a future arriving faster than we anticipated, is improving this...

Off the top? Bias. Controlling behavior. Gatekeeping. Dismissal of the expertise of others. Little perspective diversity. Diminished quality of work. Ineffective and small-minded teams. Lack of collaboration and performance. Failure to achieve desired outcomes. Words matter. They are how we program our thinking, which becomes our actions, followed by habits, then behaviors, and finally mindsets. And mindsets, well, those can be the hardest things to change. It is essential that we are...