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September 2011
Who's moved your cheese, lately?
Ten years ago I attended a mandatory workshop on adapting to change in which the organization I worked for passed out copies of
Spencer Johnson's slim book. We were each required to add a tag to our e-mail messages asserting how we unquestioningly supported change each day, no matter what. Given the economic news of the past several years and layoffs, that's a specious strategy.
Now
an essay from the Harvard Business School suggests that (surprise) not all change is equal; that it might be more useful to help employees apply the talent and expertise they possess (and were supposedly hired for) to effect constructive change in response to circumstances rather than simply telling them to accept change as a
fait accompli without question. Did I need an MBA to know that?
Two or more for the Seesaw
If one culture (say, China) rises, does that mean the rest of us (say, the U.S. and Europe) must fail? Adam Gopnik provides some historical perspective in
his excellent essay in the
New Yorker.
Putting America Back to Work