Resistance is Futile

My driving experience changed from pleasant to near panic state when a wasp managed to fly into my car. I began to wildly wave my free arm around to encourage the unwelcome insect out to one of the open windows. After several unsuccessful attempts to shoo the bug out (and a near rear end collision with a vehicle in front me!) I decided to fully focus on driving defensively. The wasp continued to bonk its head onto the inside of my windshield. Eventually I got to my destination. Eventually the wasp exhausted itself and died on my dashboard instead of flying out one of the open side windows.

"If you're not getting better, you're getting worse." says Ken Blanchard. Someone else also wisely put it this way, "If you're not growing (changing) you're dying."

Organizations today who are actively engaged in enhancing their competitive edge, are all about getting better, quicker, reducing costs, and eliminating as many non-value added, time-consuming steps in a process. They discovered that there is no longer validity in the once popular expression, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" In essence these companies and businesses are outperforming their competition by continuously improving. They're changing. They're abandoning their old habits and techniques - unlike my traveling buddy the wasp.

Change often requires doing things differently. It could require that an organization outsource, merge, build strategic alliances, acquire other resources or organizations. It could mean selling off pieces of existing businesses that no longer fit strategically. It may mean giving up a "command and control" style of management for one that more effectively uses teams; restructuring the organization or compensation programs so that they are aligned with the organization's values and goals. So what does this mean to you? It means that there are tremendous risks at maintaining the status quo and doing it "because we've always done it that way!"

Change is inevitable and resisting change is not only futile but fatal to your business. What does change look like to you?

"The future ain't what it used to be!" Yogi Berra.

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