Not all change is good

Britain is spending £1b pa on cosmetic surgery.  Plastic surgery  started off in Britain after the war when horribly scarred air-crew were helped by caring, pioneering surgeons who wanted to give them back some semblance of normality.  Now, in the naughties, we watch the fictionalised shapes on our screens and the air-brushed photos in our magazines and deem that to be normal and people seek to emulate it.  Of course there are people for whom it makes an important and healing contribution, but far too often the so called doctors seem to peddle it like drug pushers to people who have found a different form of addiction.

In both our personal and business lives there are things that are not as neat and pretty as we might wish.  Some of these things are things we need to change, but others are ones we should seek to accept and find ways to live with.  How do you tell the difference?  That is one of the key roles of leadership…

“This was the most unkindest cut of all.”   William Shakespeare

Resources:

• Sky news

Tags: cosmetic surgery, what to change, what to keep

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