“A change leader looks for change, knows how to find the right changes, and knows how to make them effective both outside the organisation and inside it." —Peter F Drucker.
People crave to change their food, clothes, lifestyles, and several other things. However, they resist when there is a change in management, policies, procedures, systems, and structures within their organisations. It sounds strange, right? People resist change when it is thrust upon them. Probably, because anything imposed will be opposed!
Treat Change as a Friend, not as a Foe
Some treat 'change' as a challenge, some as a learning, and some as an obstacle. Everything is there in your mind. You can treat 'change' as an opportunity to learn. You can treat it as an opportunity to grow. There is a need for the right attitude towards 'change' in today's world. And also, there is a need to develop an attitude to treat change as a friend rather than a foe.
The river that goes to sea undergoes several changes in direction during its journey, and sometimes at a slow and a swift pace. So is the case with human life. Throughout human life, man undergoes several challenges such as peaks, valleys, and smooth and rough terrains. The only successful people are the ones who accept and mould themselves as per the changing environment. The truth is that change is inevitable. Change is the mantra for your survival and success. The business scenario is changing rapidly, and organisations need to keep pace with the same and reinvent and evolve accordingly.
Leaders and Change
Leaders find it tough to manage and effect change. Leaders are aware that change is the only thing constant in this world. They are proactive and treat change as a friend rather than a foe. They are aware that change is the key to organisational survival and growth.
Jack Welch cautioned, "If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near." The only thing constant in the corporate world is change and competition. Every change is made for a reason. Nobody can survive without change. Change requires a new mindset, tool set, and skill set.
Unsuccessful Leaders and Change
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." —Richard Bach
Successful people often resist change, while unsuccessful people prefer to change, as the latter tend to think in multiple ways to achieve success. Unsuccessful people are also aware that success comes at a cost. When we look at a leader like Abraham Lincoln, he was unsuccessful several times. He made the world sit up and take notice during his brief tenure as the President of America by preserving the unity of America and ending slavery. He learned the lessons the hard way in his initial failures. He knew what did not work to reach the top, and that helped him become one of the best Presidents of America. Similarly, when we look at Edison, he was unsuccessful several times in inventing the bulb. But he made it possible as he knew what did not work.
Takeaways
“We are not creatures of circumstances, we are the creators of circumstance" —Disraeli
It is a fact that organisations that create change can move more rapidly than those that manage change. Creating change is possible only when there is cooperation on the part of the organisational members to create change constructively. Leaders can change the fate of their organisations with the stroke of a pen. Hence, they must learn to use their pens to create rather than to manage change with the changing times and technologies to ensure organisational excellence and effectiveness.
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