Organizations are like elephants ... they both learn through conditioning.
Trainers shackle young elephants with heavy chains to deeply embedded stakes. In that way the elephant learns to stay in its place. Older elephants never try to leave even though they have the strength to pull the stake and move beyond. Their conditioning limits their movements with only a small metal bracelet around their foot ... attached to nothing.
Like powerful elephants, many companies are bound by early conditioned constraints. "We've always done it this way" is as limiting to an organization's progress as the unattached chain around the elephant's foot.
Success ties you to the past. The very factors that produced today's success often create tomorrow's failure. In today's fast-paced world, elephants are an endangered species. Can't move fast enough to escape the competitive laser gun. Fleetness of foot is required. So gazelles survive .... not slow to change elephants.
Needing change doesn't make it happen. Too many organizations still have metal bracelets around their feet. You need to mobilize the support of your people behind "your" change!
How are you evaluating the need for change in your company and what actions will you take to empower your people to make it happen?
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