I make no apologies for, constantly, highlighting the importance of Change in every manager’s life. It is the manner in which he/she identifies, evaluates and responds to Change, that will determine the ongoing success of the organization. Until this change management skill set is acquired and practiced, there can be no guarantees of an organization’s future success or, even, survival.
What is remarkable, and somewhat disconcerting, is the rate of increase at which Change has continued to occur, reaching exponential proportions in the modern era.
As an exercise, consider the last 50,000 years as 800 people living sequential life spans of 62-63 years.
In this circumstance:
- 650 will have lived in caves.
- 70 would have had an effective means of communicating, one to another.
- 7 people would have had access to the printed word and could, empirically, measure the difference between hot and cold.
- 5 people would have been able, accurately, to measure the passage of time.
- Everything that makes up today’s material world will have been developed during the lifespan of the 800th person.
- There will more progress made during half the lifespan of the 801st person than in all the previous 50,000 years!
In every aspect of medicine, technology and science, yesterday’s breakthrough becomes today’s normal practice. New inventions make obsolescence inevitable. Science fiction will become science fact.
There is an old saying, ‘A change is as good as a rest’. So far as the effect of Change has, on people and organizations, the last thing that we should do is relax. We must be constantly vigilant to Change taking place to us, and around us. We must predict its occurrence, measure its effects and develop appropriate responses.
There is no ‘rest’ in a constantly changing World
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