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4 Things That I Learned About Change From The Orange Revolution

Digital Tonto

The Orange Revolution in 2004 changed that. The post 4 Things That I Learned About Change From The Orange Revolution first appeared on Digital Tonto. So why worry or complain about things that you couldn’t do anything about anyway? It seemed better to focus on things close to you; your family, your work, your friends.

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Self-Righteousness Isn’t A Strategy

Digital Tonto

I first noticed this in the aftermath of the Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004. The truth is to bring about lasting change you need to learn to love your haters. You Need To Learn It. So we feel the urge to lash out and silence opposition. That almost guarantees a failure to survive victory.

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Four Transformation Secrets Business Leaders Can Learn from Social and Political Movements

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2004, I was managing a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. One of the things I noticed was that thousands of people, who would normally be doing thousands of different things, would stop what they were doing and start doing the same things all at once, […]

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Innovation adoption in the technology lifecycle for Energy Translation

Paul Hobcraft

Everett Rogers (March 6, 1931 – October 21, 2004) was an eminent American communication theorist and sociologist, who originated the diffusion of innovations theory and introduced the term early adopter and the model for this we have become very familiar with. The diffusion of innovation is essential to understand to get eventually to scale.

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How “True Believers” Can Undermine Change

Digital Tonto

I first noticed this in the aftermath of the Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004. The truth is to bring about lasting change you need to learn to love your haters. So we feel the urge to lash out and silence opposition. That almost guarantees a failure to survive victory.

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4 Things Leaders Can Learn About Transformation from Social and Political Movements

Innovation Excellence

In 2004, I was managing a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. One of the things I noticed was that thousands of people, who would normally be doing thousands of different things, would stop what they were doing and start doing the same things all at once, in nearly complete unison, with.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Directive 2004/27/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use. uri=OJ:L:2004:136:0034:0057:EN:PDF. Design Principles Interfaces Learning From Others Visual and Visible' 2 European Commission. 8 Sless, D.,

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