Getting change to stick - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Jun 07
  

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  • Even though many people are pleased with my work here, I’m always striving to do more, to make things better. What I’ve done or what I’m doing isn’t enough, because there is some much more I want to do to make the users experience in the Libraries better. As a result, a part of me feels a little bit like nothing has changed when another part of me knows that things are different.
  • In the past, I would have left my impatience get the better of me and disregarded small victories and indicators of change. Experience has taught me to temper my impatience though and to trust my nose when it comes to change. The arrival of change in an organization is a little bit like the arrival of spring in Maine; it take forever. In Maine the arrival of full spring can take until the month of June, but from March to June there are subtle signs that spring is coming. One sign is that things smell different.

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