CHAPTER 16
Broaden YourBandwidth
IN ADDITION TO your loyalties and your tuning, your bandwidth—that is, your repertoire of techniques for moving adaptive change forward in your organization—is a key element in the system that is yourself. These techniques span a spectrum, from graceful and inspired rhetoric to in-your-face confrontation. Depending on the situation and people involved, you have to be able to mix and match techniques as needed. That requires a broad bandwidth. As John Wooden, Bobby Knight, and many other great coaches of college and professional sports have suggested, you’ve got to coach each player differently. Some players are going to require gentle prodding. Others are going to require a lot of hand holding and nursing. And ...
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