Event or Process

I listened to Liam Fox, the secretary of state for defence, talking on Saturday talking about Libya.  He said “If you don’t allow Change to to be a process then it becomes an event.”   Which I took to mean that if Change wasn’t a continuous thing then all of energy slowly builds up until it explodes in something like the revolt that is happening there now.  I think that this is also valid for business and in our own lives.  If we don’t allow Change to be part of how we live and work then the changing of the gears is much more uncomfortable and perhaps is one reason why people tend to hate Change.

The thing is that if you stop on your journey, then getting going again takes much more energy.  You need to regularly reviewing if what you are doing is working and if you are on track to get what you want, and indeed, if you still really want it!  It is easy to just keep on doing what you have always done, only to realise that what you get is no longer the right thing…

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