July 2010

One journey ends, but the adventure continues

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on July 24, 2010

After many years of always carrying around some earmarked textbook and a file folder of articles, of squeezing in writing around family and typing away in hotel rooms on client trips, and of wondering when it will ever end, I finally finished the doctoral journey. The dissertation is finished and approved, the defense is complete, [...]

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The ‘Change Train’ Chugs Uphill

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on July 12, 2010

Why is large scale system change so hard? Isn’t this what President Obama touted through his campaign – “Do you want change?” What people fail to understand is that while “change” is an easy word to say (I even think you can put this word to music and have a catchy tune regardless of the [...]

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