Continuity and Change with Robert W. Jake Jacobs

Welcome to another episode of The Authentic Change Podcast, I am Mike Horne, your host and I am joined today by Robert W. Jake Jacobs who for more than 35 years has been working in a variety of industries and has been supporting thousands of people in important changes in their business. He talks in today’s episode about his new book Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results.

• [3:20] Jake shares a little about himself.
• [6:40] What are the reasons why Jake wrote his latest book?
• [8:22] How can we make personal change great?
• [10:23] Paying attention to continuity is a way of diminishing the anxiety caused by change.
• [13:15] Jake talks about the origins of the concept of levers.
• [16:20] What is the relationship between leadership and the struggle to change?
• [21:45] Jake explains why change should be customized.
• [23:22] Are there some levers more difficult for people to grasp than others?
• [29:10] Find opportunities for people to make meaningful differences.
• [30:05] What would Jake say to the person who wants to start working with the 8 levers for change but doesn’t really have a lot of time?
• [32:14] Jake believes that there are different ways in which people can share value.
• [32:55] Levers work for individuals, teams, and organizations.
• [36:10] How do we take leverage into our own hands? Start by embracing change, it is the way of doing more with less.
• [39:17] Shifting paradigms opens the doors to new possibilities.