Round the World…

Tomorrow my daughter returns from a 5 month long trip round the world.  She has been not just to places that she has never been before but also places nothing like anywhere that she has been before.  She has lived with different people in a different way; eaten strange foods and has had to get used doing without things she’d have taken for granted and been surrounded by all sorts of strange smells and sounds.  So she will arrive back home a changed person, and no doubt home will seem different from the place she remembered and the place that she left.  When she picks up her life, no doubt it will proceed differently as a result of these experiences.

This has a bearing on the change project you are working on or about to embark on.  If you are always deep in the middle of it you will be limited in what you can see and do.  This an area where an outside perspective can be helpful.  However, another tactic is to go back to a challenge you have shelved or half done with the benefit of more perspective.  This can be achieved also by rotating your teams between projects.  Things which where impossible before might now be do’able, and people and priorities change.

Phileas Fogg gained a day as he raced round the world in 80 days, time isn’t the only thing that changes when you go away and revisit something.  Maybe now is the time to dust off some old projects or issues and revisit them?

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