{"id":49,"date":"2007-04-02T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T21:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-02-20T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T16:45:12","slug":"increasing-your-organizations-openness-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/49\/increasing-your-organizations-openness-to-change","title":{"rendered":"Increasing your organization\u2019s \u201copenness to experience and change\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of thinking of themselves or their businesses as static, the more Fully Functioning leader sees\u00a0him or herself\u00a0(and their organization or team) as consistently changing.\u00a0 Being \u201cBuilt for Change\u201d is something my collegue John Spence identifies as one of the major characteristics of a successful organization.\u00a0 A collection of individuals built this way makes for a flexible and effective organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mike Krzyzewski (&#8220;Sha-chef-ski&#8221;)of the consistently successful Duke Blue Devil college basketball program recently said that static goals (&#8220;win 25 games&#8221; or even &#8220;make 10 million dollars this year&#8221;) often turn into limitations for a team.\u00a0 To avoid limiting an organization, goals must come from a consistently changing process\/environment.\u00a0 Of course, the fear of failure often decreases our openness to new experiences.\u00a0 John Maxwell, in his outstanding book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Failing-Forward-Make-Most-Mistakes\/dp\/0785274308\">Failing Forward<\/a><\/em> talks about how to overcome this block to an organization that is open to experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/45\/on-becoming-a-more-fully-functioning-organization\"><em>Click here to read more about Fully Functioning Organizations<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of thinking of themselves or their businesses as static, the more Fully Functioning leader sees\u00a0him or herself\u00a0(and their organization or team) as consistently changing.\u00a0 Being \u201cBuilt for Change\u201d is something my collegue John Spence identifies as one of the major characteristics of a successful organization.\u00a0 A collection of individuals built this way makes for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teamgroup-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}