The Winds of Change

Spring is in the air.  At least that’s what I keep trying to tell myself.  Change is also in the air – but that is pretty constant.  What is nice about changes in the spring though is that they are usually put forward as possibilities, whereas changes in the winter have a different psychological affect.  Have you ever noticed that? 

I could talk about change all the time.  It is truly a passion of mine.  What keeps it a passion I think are the possibilities of a change handled well.  The rewards are great for organizations and the individuals who populate them.  I am not trying to be a Pollyanna when I say this, but all change can be positive.  It is all in the way a change is handled.  And we all know this.  Yet there are still so many organizations (and people) who theoretically know how to approach change but still fail to do the critical few things needed for success.  In some ways it is like dieting.  We all know how to eat well, we just don’t always do it.  And for the same reasons – we think it is too much trouble.  

My message to those organizations is clear: Make the best choice you can in the moment.  Just the act of considering different options and then making a choice has to lead to something different.  Because we all know the definition of instanity – doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  So make the best choice you can in the moment.  It doesn’t have to be the perfect choice, it doesn’t have to the “right” choice – it just has to be a choice.   Then make another and another and before you know it you will have strung together enough choices to have approached your change in a different way.

In our hearts we know there is no silver bullet, even though we always look for it.  Making the best choice is as close as we may come to finding the “one right way”.  Try it, I promise it will be different.