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Entries Tagged as 'Change'

Don’t Teach – Model

November 4th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Don’t just encourage someone to do something – teach them how. Modeling the behavior yourself is probably the best method of teaching. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember things I have learned. Someone comes along, does something, and it all hits me: What are they doing?  Don’t they know…? I […]

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Tags: Change · Culture · Learning · Time

A Few Learning Accelerators

September 16th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Want to learn faster? Go to different places, go at different times, or go without any money. How will you survive? You will learn. Want to learn faster? Go someplace different. The difference of surroundings helps me to notice so much more than when I am in my regular routine visiting all […]

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Tags: Change · Learning

More Difficult People, Reframing, and Changing Me

September 6th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips In an earlier post, I discussed difficult people and reframing statements. Once again, I meet a difficult person. Once again, I can choose how frame the situation, and once again I can choose how to live and work. I worked with a different set of people this week. Some of those people […]

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Tags: Change · Choose · Reframe · Work

Sometimes We don’t Want New Technology

July 5th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We don’t accept every new gadget that comes from the mind of an engineer. New uses need to be demonstrated for new technologies to take hold. Either that or new generations come along with different values. New technology comes every day. We immediately accept it into our lives without a thought of […]

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Tags: Adapting · Change · Design · People · Privacy · Technology

The End of Credentials

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips No journalism degree? Not needed to blog and break news. Not a pro photographer? Not needed to publish world-wide on Flickr. No computer science degree? Not needed to learn programming and work. I believe these things to be true. I believe that you don’t have to have a credential from an organization […]

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Tags: Change · Employment · Learning

Proudly Disorganized

May 6th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I have known people, including myself, who have nagging problems. They, including myself, have had those problems for years and have never done anything about them. These problems are handy excuses. Perhaps that is why they, including myself, keep them. I am attending a special event this week. There were a few […]

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Tags: Change · Excuses · People

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April 15th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips The title of this post is a telephone number – the way we used to say telephone numbers. Much has changed in telephones, and much of the change is for the better. Still, we have lost a lot of our culture about telephones. The title of this post is a phone number. […]

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Tags: Change · Communication · Culture · Technology

Encourage

April 12th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I have seen encouragement change the lives of people. Here I relate one episode of such. This post is a bit different from the rest. Well, that is if you can find a pattern in the rest of my posts. I’ve read a lot of blogging experts that say you should find […]

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Tags: Change · Family · Health · People

Stressful Situation – Another Reframe

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We often give power and control to our surroundings. This change of words returns those to me. I have heard it many times and said it a few times. Things like: I am under a lot of stress. This is a stressful situation. The stress here is too much. Let’s look at […]

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Tags: Change · Choose · Reframe · Writing

Paying the Tuition and (Maybe) Getting the Education

January 6th, 2010 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Life is full of bad experiences. There is always something that can be learned in each experience. The bad experience is a form of tuition. The learning is a form of education. Nothing guarantees we get the education with the tuition. The education, however, is there for our choosing. College is pretty […]

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Tags: Change · Choose · General Systems Thinking · Learning