Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. -Chinese Proverb
“Don’t worry about getting old, worry about thinking old.”
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. ~ W.C. Stone
Take care of your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Philosophy Simplified
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~ Robert Brault
"Auguries of Innocence"
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the Palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Bison in the Autumn Mist
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Bison in the Autumn Mist
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by Donna Kennedy
Things typically get worse before they get better. That’s not pessimism. It’s reality.
What happens when you ‘improve’ a practice or procedure at work? Productivity goes down. Frustration goes up. It takes time to learn and adapt.
The flat blue line represent business as it should be. The red star indicates a gap between current state and desired state. Pain and urgency are a function of the gap.
Successful change may yield greater than expected benefits.
Change means something that worked in the past goes away.
Discouragement and depression are bedfellows of prolonged frustration.
The five stages of grief defined by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross apply to our response to unwanted change.
There is no guarantee you’ll get to stage five. You might gather your toys and run home instead of accepting an unwanted change. Or you might stay on the team, but persistently pull sideways.
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Dan Millman
What makes leading change difficult?
What suggestions might you offer for successfully leading through change?
Bonus material:
*Kelley and Conner’s Emotional Cycle of Change – from MindTools.com
Template: Change Proposal (dpac.tas.gov.au)
On Death And Dying: Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
Ten Reasons People Resist Change (hbr.org)
The Eight Stages of Building Commitment | Conner Partners
“It is in changing that we find purpose.” ~ Heraclitus
Change is the only constant in life, and it is in changing that we find purpose.” –Heraclitus
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The idea that we are independent of nature is a tremendous conceit, and true because we are, relatively speaking, divorced from nature by that very attitude. The constructs of human beings are really no more unnatural than bees' nests, and birds' nests, and constructs of animal and insect beings. They're extensions of ourselves.
—Alan Watts
