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Article location:http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/open_change-or-die.html
December 19, 2007
Change or Die
By Alan Deutschman
What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric
that conflates corporate performance with life and death? Not the overblown exhortations
of a rabid boss, or a slick motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing CEO. We're talking
actual life or death now. Your own life or death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority
figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act?
If you didn't, your time would end soon -- a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change
when change really mattered? When it mattered most?
Yes, you say?
Try again.
Yes?
You're probably deluding yourself.
You wouldn't change.
Don't believe it? You want odds? Here are the odds, the scientifically studied odds: nine
to one. That's nine to one against you. How do you like those odds?
This revelation unnerved many people in the audience last November at IBM's "Global
Innovation Outlook" conference. The company's top executives had invited the most
farsighted thinkers they knew from around the world to come together in New York and
propose solutions to some really big problems. They started with the crisis in health care,
an industry that consumes an astonishing $1.8 trillion a year in the United States alone,
or 15% of gross domestic product. A dream team of experts took the stage, and you
might have expected them to proclaim that breathtaking advances in science and
technology -- mapping the human genome and all that -- held the long-awaited answers.
That's not what they said. They said that the root cause of the health crisis hasn't
changed for decades, and the medical establishment still couldn't figure out what to do
Change or Die
What if you were given that choice?

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about it.
Dr. Raphael "Ray" Levey, founder of the Global Medical Forum, an annual summit
meeting of leaders from every constituency in the health system, told the audience, "A
relatively small percentage of the population consumes the vast majority of the
health-care budget for diseases that are very well known and by and large behavioral."
That is, they're sick because of how they choose to live their lives, not because of
environmental or genetic factors beyond their control. Continued Levey: "Even as far
back as when I was in medical school" -- he enrolled at Harvard in 1955 -- "many articles
demonstrated that 80% of the health-care budget was consumed by five behavioral
issues." Levey didn't bother to name them, but you don't need an MD to guess what he
was talking about: too much smoking, drinking, eating, and stress, and not enough
exercise.
Then the knockout blow was delivered by Dr. Edward Miller, the dean of the medical
school and CEO of the hospital at Johns Hopkins University. He turned the discussion to
patients whose heart disease is so severe that they undergo bypass surgery, a traumatic
and expensive procedure that can cost more than $100,000 if complications arise. About
600,000 people have bypasses every year in the United States, and 1.3 million heart
patients have angioplasties -- all at a total cost of around $30 billion. The procedures
temporarily relieve chest pains but rarely prevent heart attacks or prolong lives. Around
half of the time, the bypass grafts clog up in a few years; the angioplasties, in a few
months. The causes of this so-called restenosis are complex. It's sometimes a reaction to
the trauma of the surgery itself. But many patients could avoid the return of pain and the
need to repeat the surgery -- not to mention arrest the course of their disease before it
kills them -- by switching to healthier lifestyles. Yet very few do. "If you look at people
after coronary-artery bypass grafting two years later, 90% of them have not changed their
lifestyle," Miller said. "And that's been studied over and over and over again. And so
we're missing some link in there. Even though they know they have a very bad disease
and they know they should change their lifestyle, for whatever reason, they can't."
Changing the behavior of people isn't just the biggest challenge in health care. It's the
most important challenge for businesses trying to compete in a turbulent world, says
John Kotter, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied dozens of
organizations in the midst of upheaval: "The central issue is never strategy, structure,
culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of
people." Those people may be called upon to respond to profound upheavals in
marketplace dynamics -- the rise of a new global competitor, say, or a shift from a
regulated to a deregulated environment -- or to a corporate reorganization, merger, or
entry into a new business. And as individuals, we may want to change our own styles of
work -- how we mentor subordinates, for example, or how we react to criticism. Yet more
often than not, we can't.
CEOs are supposedly the prime change agents for their companies, but they're often as
resistant to change as anyone -- and as prone to backsliding. The most notorious recent
example is Michael Eisner. After he nearly died from heart problems, Eisner finally
heeded his wife's plea and brought in a high-profile number-two exec, Michael Ovitz, to
“If you look at people after coronary-artery bypass grafting
two years later, 90% of them have not changed their
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Successful People
Think Optimistically and Plan Purposefully

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Successful People
“The pessimist sees
difficulty in every
opportunity. The
optimist sees the
opportunity in every
difficulty.”
Attitude

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Successful People
Set stretch goals and adopt high
standards for themselves.

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Successful People

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Successful Lawyers
Take Responsibility for Their Career

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Successful Lawyers
Use Their Time Wisely

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Successful Lawyers
Know What They Want

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Successful Lawyers
Work Each Day to Become Better

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Successful Lawyers
Build Their Profile

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Successful Lawyers
Get Comfortable Outside Comfort Zone

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Spend Quality Time with Their Family

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Why Have a Plan?

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Big Rocks
Why Have a Plan?

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Most Important Resources
Energy Time
Why Have a Plan?

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You Will Be More Successful
Why Have a Plan?

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You Will Make Better Choices
Why Have a Plan?

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Energizing 2016 Plan

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What
2016 Plan
Goals
90 Days
Why Important
How
Next
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NeedPassion
Talent Major Definite
Purpose
Energizing 2016 Plan

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Planning for Young Lawyers
Start with Focus on Long-Term
2021
2016

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Begin With What
January
2021

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Identify the truly ambitious goal you
want to achieve in 5 years 26
Exercise 1

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What - Example, Alison Rowe
Alison Rowe

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What - Example, Travis Crabtree

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What - Example, Cordell

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Before You Start Planning

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Identify Your
Strengths
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Define Your Target Market
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Before You Start Planning

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Decide What You Want Target
Market to Hire You to Do? 33
Before You Start Planning

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Become Visible and Credible
by Adding Value 34
Before You Start Planning

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What Are Target Market
Organizations 35
How - Step 1

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Identify Your Target Market’s
Problems, Opportunities and Changes
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Before You Start Planning

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What Creative Solutions Can You
Provide to Your Target Market
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Create a Plan with Goals

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Set the Most
Effective Goals
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Create a Plan with Goals

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Create a Plan with Goals
Goals
Hours
Activities
Goals
Hours
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BottomUp

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Goals
Hours
Activities
Create a Plan with Goals
Top Down

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• Promotion
• Earn $_____
• _____ New Clients/
Customers
• Expand Relationship
with _____ Client/
Customers
Motivating Performance Goals

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• Learn How to____
• Read ___
• Speak at ____
• Contact ___
• Meet with ____ contacts
• Write ___ articles and get them
published
Detailed Action Goals

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Rank Your ActionGoals
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Goals
Hours
Activities
How - Step 2
Bottom Up

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Substantive Learning
Industry and Business Knowledge
People Skills
Your Development
Create a Plan with Goals

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Industry / Business Education
Create a Plan with Goals

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Reputation / Profile Relationship Building
Create a Plan with Goals

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Profile Building
Create a Plan with Goals

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Profile Building
Create a Plan with Goals

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Profile Building: Industry
Client Development

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Profile Building
WRITING

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Profile Building
SPEAKING

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Relationship Building

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Exercise 2
Establish
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Prioritization Matrix
High Return / Low Investment
Do first and do often
High Return / High Investment
Break down into smaller pieces
Low Return / Low Investment
Do when you have time
Low Return / High Investment
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Exercise 3
Develop
Your Action
Steps
Determine Investment and
Return for Each Goal

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Exercise 4
Determine Time for Each Plan Item

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90-Day Action Plan
Value in Creating

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90-Day Plan(Actions)
List Actions for Next 90 Days

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Plan Each Week
What? How Long? When?

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if X
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Sleep
Development
Free
Work
How you spend your
development time will determine
the quality of your career
How you spend your
free time determines
the quality of your life
How You Spend Your Time Weekly
Plan Each Week

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Exercise 6
Create Weekly Action Items

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Accountability
Make Yourself Accountable

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Partner for Accountability
Accountability

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Accountability
Keep Journal

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Planning
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Best Day and Best Time of Day

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Your Next Steps
What Are you Going to Do Now?

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Your Next Steps
How Will You Stay on Track?

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Success and satisfaction does not come from
focusing on success, happiness or money. Instead
it comes from focusing on your passion,
developing your talent and identifying the needs
and wants of those you want to serve.
- Cordell M. Parvin

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Cordell M. Parvin
http://www.cordellparvin.com
Developing an Effective
Business Plan
for Career Success