PICCADILLY — My dad used to say that sometimes you had to wait for a few parishioners to die before you could make changes to the church.
It was typical of his kind of wry sense of the ridiculous. But that doesn’t make it any less true. It is a great truism that people have to be able to adapt, or no progress can be made.
Looking today at the speculated new list of England players for World Cup 2014 (did you think we wouldn’t start talking about it yet?!), they’re almost all new. As they should be.
I remember the shock when The Dreaded Sven brought in a whole new generation and shipped out the old. But, bless him, it worked.
And then you have work situations:
• The newly merged company boss who wants to know why they can’t just use his old company’s ways
• The head of department who wants to turn her team upside down, but doesn’t want to upset anyone
• The process of replacing the unhappy employee that looks for the same kind of person for the same kind of job
• The business that can’t serve it’s clients and wants a contractor to do it at no loss of revenue
• The organisation that cannot change so they have brought in consultants, and won’t let them change anything
It’s perhaps symptomatic of the way people are. We know the medicine, we just regularly ‘forget’ to take it.
/df
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