How would you feel if your department/organisation was assigned to move and merge with another department across town? Then you moved, created new routines for the family, adjusted to new colleagues, new floor plans and workspaces, new reporting structures and expectations. Then two years later were told that it was a mistake and you had to move back again?
Yes, I’d be bummed too.
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I’ve just returned from a four day leadership program I ran for an extraordinary group of science leaders, from three different oceans. Reef Ecologic is hosting the Coral Reef Fellowship, first of its kind in far north Queensland. The three-week program covers various aspects of complex leadership (this is where I helped out), marine reef science, and reef management. I had a few glorious days on Orpheus Island in sunshine, facilitating workshops and activities barefoot, with an expanse of ocean as backdrop.
YM-YWCA of Winnipeg’s Women’s Six Canoe Week Trip 1992
Had any change lately? New premises? Merging with another department? 4000 voluntary redundancies in your organisation? New job? New baby?
Change is like a river flowing all around us. Some climb on a rock and look for the bank. Others sit on a rock in the current, just watching it flow by. Others jump in and go with the flow. The industrious ones grab a boat and steer their way through the rapids, avoiding jams, drops and waterfalls. And there are those who CAUSE the change, direct the flow of the river. These are the engineers, the disrupters, the wild and radical innovators.
That, or they’re God.