It would be the understatement of the week to say that we've had to adapt to a lot of change over the past 18 months. Change is its own five letter, four letter word in many minds. We know we need it, we know we should do it, yet we fight it. It's uncomfortable, it's unfamiliar and as yet unproven, so we don't trust it. It might have been none of our doing in the first place, yet here it is. Nobody is exempt, even at the top levels of your company. As a matter of fact, it is usually you at the top that have to go first. No matter the size of the change, no matter the turmoil, answering this question changes everything:
"All things as they are, what can I do to make it better?"
What can I do? I - not they. Not some other department, or the masses on the front lines, or the person in the office next door. What can I do? That is the question.
Until you answer this question, you are volunteering to place yourself in the position of victim of change. It's something that is being done to you by some outside force. Until you answer this question you are an observer with no control over the outcome.
After you answer this question, you become the force that is acting rather than being acted upon. You transform into someone who is creating the future. You open the opportunity to choose a course, then to adapt and choose another if the first doesn't get you all the way to your desired destination.
You don't have to sit in the CEO's seat to answer this question. Anyone in any role in your business, in your family, in the community, in the WORLD, can choose to take on the mantle of agency, of leadership. Ask the question, answer it, then go forth and DO.
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