A Life of No Change

I was listening to an interesting talk today and basically the expert was saying that if we went back just 300 years, our ancestors were all living lives that basically never knew change.  You would expect to die in the same place you were born, follow your fathers footsteps and do his job in the same way as he did it before you.  We are sometimes overwhelmed by the pace of change in our lives but the alternative of living with no change at all seems equally unthinkable to us.  So it isn’t change itself that we don’t like, it is not feeling in control of it, and not having any choices in the matter.  Having been snowed in twice this year, I’m very familiar with the frustration of not being able to go somewhere different, of having my choices removed.

Managing Change is about getting the balance right, and about enabling people to chose what works best for them, ignore these simple truths at your peril!

Tags: GroundHog Day, no change

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