Why change doesn’t work

When it comes to any kind of change – in your business, your team, or your life – I often use the spaceship analogy: to create any lasting change is like lifting a spaceship into the orbit: you need to escape earth’s gravity, which will inevitably pull you back to where you’ve been before should you fail to do so. 

For achieving escape velocity, you must give full power to your engines.

To translate this into business reality, you must take massive action. The emphasis is on “massive”. 

In my experience this is where most change initiatives fail: they take SOME action, but lack MASSIVE action.

Here is what I mean in 3 steps: 

1. Decide. With your leadership team, clearly decide how important the planned change is for each of you PERSONALLY (yes, the personal aspect is vital!). Only MASSIVE importance builds the foundation for MASSIVE action.
2. Start immediately. Every change initiative that you only start next week or next month will less likely develop the needed momentum. You need to make hay while the sun shines.
3. Be bold.  You must make it clear to every member of the organisation that this change is real and will be massive. Most people don’t resist change because they disagree with the intent, but because they don’t believe it’s serious.

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