The Opposite of Change

Everyone seems to agree that Change is tough and challenging; that people tend to avoid it where possible.  Business leaders are supposed to drive it but can tend to prefer to avoid it where possible.   However, I don’t recall having ever heard anyone arguing that stagnation is good. 

The thing is that people and businesses are a in a constant state of flux, as humans we spend the first part of our lives growing up, then growing older and at some point this changes to becoming old.  Our products, our systems, out ideas all go through exactly this process.

Perhaps if we spent less time debating it and trying to ‘manage’ it, and a little more being it and becoming it, we might make a little more progress…. What do you think?

“I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.”   William Orville Douglas

Tags: balance, Change, stagnation

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