This is a shout out to Jeremie Averous for yesterdays comment about change management as part of the Human Adventure. In the last week I have seen change from the eyes of a client buried in the organization with turf protection and legality as the wrapper, change from the eyes of hungry/passionate/focused entrepreneurs and change through the words of two authors, Seth Godin with Linchpin and Guy Kawasaki with Enchantment.
Big change balances back and forth. One party here in the US benefits from apathy and then overreaches. The overreach begins to illustrate change built slowly over 30 years that has rearranged the world and the day to day lives of individuals (negatively). Individuals have reacted worldwide. The pendulum swings in a different direction now. Political Yin and Yang of change.
To have corporate change that is numbers driven (which is a business version of that overreach) with no rewards at the individual level (but plenty up high) mechanizes the approach and makes change less human and not the kind of adventure any of us want to participate in. I personally have pushed against some of the negative change I see with this career in order to make the human part of what I do replicable and sustainable.
I invite leaders and stakeholders busy with their own change to do the same.
