Accepting change necessitates the willingness to age. What comes with age? Experience, institutional memory and knowhow, all good things, right? Your company has experience – “we know how to get the job done.” You have institutional memory – “we have done this before, learned from our mistakes and don’t have to invent a new solution.” You have good old fashioned knowhow – “all the skills we need to accomplish our goals, we possess.”
However, the future is unfolding before us at an extraordinary and mind-numbing rate. So much of what we thought we could trust, the “gold standard” - our ability to make sense of our customer needs, our industry and the world at large - seems to be changing.
It is time for us to recognize that change is an invitation to recognize that each moment contains within it a hint of the future that is emerging. Age is about letting go and receiving the future as much as it is about learning from the past.
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