5 ways to manage change *Ride your horse in the direction it's going *
If you and your organisation are facing large-scale change, you have a number of choices: run away and pretend it isn’t happening, get someone else to fix it, institute some diversionary activity, or cling to what you have in the hope that it will comfort you through the times ahead. Or, you can learn to manage change in the following 5 ways. 1. See the glass as already broken. Change is a natural and inevitable part of life. Just as change is essential for the formation of a business in the first place, so it is essential for the continuation of the business in its later stages. The Buddhists teach that, to understand and accept the inevitability of change, we need to see “the glass as already broken”. In other words, we need to accept that, in time, everything that is made will be unmade and everything that works now will stop working. In time, a simple product like a glass will disintegrate and fall to dust. Nothing stays the same and we must accept it. 2. Open up your thinking. Being able to see the way ahead is one of the hardest things to detect and get right. Napoleon Bonaparte was reputed to have dismissed the invention of steam ships with the words, “What, sir! Would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.” Gary Hamel says that those who run enterprises must guard against such closed thinking by listening to three types of employee: newcomers because they’re not yet into the corporate way of thinking; young people because they have more creativity; and those on the periphery because they’re closer to change. Continue <http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/5-ways-to-manage-change/> http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/5-ways-to-manage-change/ best regards *[email protected]* -- Who is Panna Lal? <http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/who-is-panna-lal/>
