Nobody likes change. We tend to avoid it until we can't. Maybe that's why disruption happens. We may be able to blame it on surprise, but usually the signs were present for some time.
Good job on pointing to the increasing change and calling us back to our missions.
As Grant McCracken wrote,
"You would hope that we were getting better at understanding and managing change. And sometimes we are. Too often however, our response is to ignore and forget change, to fake our way through it, to pretend an engagement and a mastery we do not have. And that’s bad. That means we are not getting better at change, but steadily worse. We are denying disruption, instead of adapting to it.
We seem to adopt and adapt to something like Twitter by stages, a little like Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief. Except in this case, it’s a passage from confusion to congratulation. Self-congratulation." [2]
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