In our own work we have observed that progress toward goals may be affected by many

factors, such as:

Motivation (How important is it to you?)

Contextual awareness (How accurate is your picture of external factors that may help

or hinder achievement?)

Ownership (Who shares this goal and has a stake in its outcome?)

Clarity (Are you able to envision the o

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Like individual change, organizational change is also iterative and dynamic. I'm an avid student of Henry Mintzberg's work on organizational strategy.* He has a beautiful analogy to sculpture: you have your materials, and in the process of working with them you figure out how to deviate from your plan, to add and subtract. I think this depicts perf

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