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Four Ways that Laughter Promotes Organizational Change

AndrewBlogNo commentsbehavior change, change management, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, leadershipMay 31, 2013

Rarely would I use the word “humorous” to describe the organizational environments in which I’ve worked. In fact, I have found that most leaders see laughter as the antithesis of productivity. If you’re yucking it up, you’re not getting serious…

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Why Change Warriors Love Roast Beast

AndrewUncategorized2 commentsbehavior change, change leadership, Change Stories, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, leadership, motivationMarch 21, 2013

[Synopsis from my Upcoming Book Called “Amazing Change”] I was born a Baptist preacher’s kid, and never before nor since have I learned so much about being a change warrior. My parents were called to churches that were struggling. Our…

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Does Anger Promote Change?

AndrewUncategorized4 commentsbehavior change, Change, change leadership, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, journalism, leadershipMarch 11, 2013

I have a humor blog that I write for baby boomer women called DameNation. My articles are intended to lighten women’s lives through laughter. Thanks to this blog, I’ve become a regular contributor to Huffington Post, where it seems my humor…

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The New Story of Age

AndrewUncategorized15 commentsaging, aging gracefully, baby boomers, Change, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, inspirational stories, motivation, StoriesFebruary 12, 2013

Nobody told me the greatest difficulty of aging would be growing older in a world that spins an ugly, sad story about the experience. We live in a time of anti-aging serum, anti-aging vitamins, and anti-aging exercises that are used…

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How to Face a Questionable Decision

AndrewUncategorized2 commentsbehavior change, Change, change leadership, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, motivation, StoriesJanuary 31, 2013

My senior class was the first class in our school’s history to have Senior Skip Day revoked. Not because something we had done, but because a senior the year before had set something on fire. We were livid, filled with…

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If People Snooze, You Lose

AndrewUncategorizedNo commentsChange, change leadership, change management, Change Stories, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, leadership, people side of change, soft skillsNovember 14, 2012

If you think people are the “soft side” of business, then you may experience difficulty implementing your change agenda. I understand the concept of organizational excellence, where people can be inserted and removed without impacting the team effort. That works for New…

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Change, Schmange: 10 Reasons People Want to Fight Change

AndrewUncategorizedNo commentsbehavior change, Change, change leadership, change management, change warriors, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, leadershipOctober 23, 2012

Successful completion of change initiatives is actually rare. Why? Because leaders assume good plans and end states and visuals and reports are change catalysts. They see everything in preparation except the faces that will be implementing that change. I’ve been…

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How Letting Go of Fear Helped Me Find My Heart

AndrewUncategorizedNo commentsChange, change leadership, change management, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, leadership, motivation, Wizard of OzOctober 16, 2012

Three years wandering in the desert of, “Why am I here? What is my purpose?” has led me to a new place in life. And I’m glad. But getting here required a journey that included all of the lions and…

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3 Ways to Differentiate Complainers from Change Warriors

AndrewUncategorized1 commentbehavior change, Change, change leadership, change management, Change Stories, donna highfill, featured, highfill performance group, leadershipOctober 5, 2012

I remember him well.  He was a six-foot tall, silver-haired male who joined every one of our team meetings and proceeded to point out what was wrong with the change effort being discussed. He did it with authority, and always…

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How Change-Resistant Leaders are Like Ghosts

AndrewUncategorizedNo commentsChange, change leadership, change management, Change Stories, donna highfill, featured, Ghost Hunters, ghost stories, highfill performance groupOctober 1, 2012

As Halloween approaches I find myself reminiscing about my childhood, when we couldn’t afford store bought costumes. Every other kid was a ghost because most moms had an old sheet out of which she could cut holes for eyes. Of…

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