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Ch-Ch-Change:
By: Libby Wagner, Founder of Professional Leadership Results
In all our day-today business experiences, there is nothing that rivals that of change.
We attempt to navigate its tumultuous waters, we try to manage its fickle nature, and we
sometimes even conquer its battle strategy. But most often we avoid it like the plague.
Oddly enough, we rarely talk about change in itself because we're trying so hard to describe
what to do about it and why we fear it.
WHY DO WE PERSIST IN THINKING THINGS WON'T CHANGE?
Perhaps it is human nature to believe that when we step out of the bed in the morning, the floor
will be there, sturdy as ever, so that we can fumble our way to the kitchen to turn the coffee on.
That seems like a pretty safe assumption, doesn't it? Certainly, for many years, we could have assumed
that our daily lives would be, for the most part, the same-we'd rise early with the sun, tend to our
chores and our plots of land, help our children grow, watch the sun set on the horizon. In fact, prior
to the Industrial Revolution, our lives-in terms of economic, social or occupational status-did not change
significantly from year to year or even generation to generation.
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