Doug Eadie has created a new blog – Entwined Lives:  Reflections of a Returned Ethiopia Peace Corps Volunteer.  You can check it out at:  EntwinedLives.com.  The blogs that appeared on this page as part of the Addis Ababa Homecoming series have been removed from this page and are being re-posted at the Entwined Lives blog.

In my new book, Leading Out-of-the-Box Change, I talk about the normal resistance many, if not most, people, have to contend with in getting major change initiatives accomplished in their organizations and their lives.  As I say in the book, experience has taught me that fear – for example, of failing to perform up to standard, of being exposed as inadequate in some important way – is often at the heart of the resistance that can impede or even halt change.  And in our book The Blind Visionary, one of four major lessons Virginia Jacko and