More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen

Chapter Two. Strategize

You, as a budding evangelist, would probably agree that some time should be allotted for upfront planning before you jump feet first into a change effort. There’s the usual task of creating a mission and vision, but you should also take some time for self-reflection to determine whether your values are aligned with those of the initiative. In this chapter, we introduce the new patterns Know Yourself, Evolving Vision, Concrete Action Plan, and Low-Hanging Fruit to support you in these exercises.

Know Yourself

If there is a “first pattern” in our collection of patterns for introducing new ideas, it’s likely to be Know Yourself. It might seem strange that it’s appearing only now, in More Fearless Change, but we assumed that ...