Read this week ...
"Perhaps if the Existing community Would take Now and Then the trouble to pass in review the changes it has already witnessed, it would be less astounded at the revolutions which continually do and continually must flash before it; perhaps also it might with more grace accept the inevitable, and cease from the useless attempts at making a wholly new world conform itself to the rules and theories of a bygone civilisation.” - Charles Francis Adams Jr. contemplating the transcontinental railroad, 1868.
Fascinant non? Faites-moi le plaisir de relire un seconde fois… Vous avez remarqué le “… with more grace accept…” Vous avez noté le 1868?
It makes you think in the middle of the mass media? For advertising agencies in crisis? The business community as a whole?
You certainly believe it's my day in an industry in crisis of identity that causes me this fascination with change and our management more or less deficient of it ... I would say that is a human scale that this concept resonates the most ... and that those organizations that are amalgams of human ... well it's finally a single debate.
I, once again this week, witnessing how the individual fears may influence the rational side, making business decisions, however, rather basic and I can not help but return to this subject. Also, last Thursday during a discussion at Webcom, some colleagues and I ask themselves whether the technological change was now too fast for our ability as humans to cope. Subsequently, I came across this phrase that dates back over 140 years and I tell myself that it is clear the human animal is a daunting change and the problem is endogenous and not related to technology.
Indeed, last March I wrote a note inhibitors on changes where I was the link between our personal fears and challenges of implementing a change within an organization.
Among others, I say this ...
"In your life, what prevents you from taking risks? Change? To advance? Fear of the unknown ... ... ... to be wrong to hurt ... fear itself ... the fear of others ... that will tell the others ... the fear of challenge, fear of losing control, power, fear of asking, fear that you answer yes, fear to love it ... the fear of all colors. The concept of''a loaf is better than two in the bush''where I prefer what works half what I do not know ... Nostalgia what has already been ... even if it is clearly not there ... we cling to the memories ... only the good of course! The need for stability ... left to sit stably on a sinking ship ... The false discourse of responsibility ... It would not be responsible for this time to do that ...
So here, in Monday morning I invite you (and I include myself in the invitation to be insured) to think about your openness to change, to risk criticism, the need to let go your fears for the Future ... in business and in life!
Cheers and good Monday! And a bit of David Bowie from the whole music.
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