Initiating change/taking responsibility

Gregory Bledsoe: Everyone and anyone can initiate that change because, at the end of the day, it's all our responsibility. If you're dancing with your dance partner, and you want to change the dance, you can't force your dance partner to change their steps but you can change yours, and when you change yours, your partner has to adapt.

I remember the very first conference I keynoted was themed on overcoming obstacles to DevOps. One of the things I pointed out is that anyone can initiate change, and there's a ripple of that. If you understand this ripple effect, you can take advantage of it. You can identify your allies; you can influence the influencers and manage your managers and spread this good change. This is something you can do from anywhere in the organization. You're able to inspire people; you can articulate the argument in economic and mathematical terms and through measurement. You can always start doing...