In reality, we enjoy and embrace change all the time - so let's not get hung up on it. Let's hit the beach instead.It's funny. So much of the literature on business change is predicated on the notion that people resist change. Yet in our lives we invoke it, create it, seek it all the time.
Take the notion of a holiday (or what my American chums would call a vacation). We uproot ourselves from our normal, everyday, comfortable existence to go on often uncomfortable and frustrating journeys to places where we have no frame of reference, eat things we would never consider at home and meet people with whom we have little or nothing in common, save that we find ourselves in the same place at the same time.
Why? Because it is fun. It is enjoyable. It opens us up to new experiences. And sometimes it is life-changing.
Do we resist this change? Do we need a stakeholder engagement plan? Do we need a force-field analysis? Do we need a communications plan?
Do we heck. We just need to get out there and do it - and when we do, we have a great time.
I'm just off to implement just such a change for a couple of weeks with my major stakeholders - my kids and my wife.
I'll be back online in mid-August. Until then - play differently.
Mike
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