Comments on: Why change? http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/06/23/why-change/ The strategic role of the senior executive Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Miki http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/06/23/why-change/comment-page-1/#comment-7227 Miki Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:25:13 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=540#comment-7227 My pleasure, Jim. Today, people are so wired and so busy that thinking is becoming a lost art, since thinking, shallow or deep, takes a certain amount of quiet. But why bother when you can gogle dozens of sources and get their thinking, mash it up and regurgitate it as your own smarts. My pleasure, Jim. Today, people are so wired and so busy that thinking is becoming a lost art, since thinking, shallow or deep, takes a certain amount of quiet. But why bother when you can gogle dozens of sources and get their thinking, mash it up and regurgitate it as your own smarts.

]]> By: Jim Stroup http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/06/23/why-change/comment-page-1/#comment-7221 Jim Stroup Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:01:01 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=540#comment-7221 Yes, Miki - I'm sure many of us are keeping you company in that regard, although whether we are good company or not is another question. Your link is to an HBS bit that suggests we need to look below people's conscious thoughts to their subconscious processes to influence behavior. That's an interesting thought; certainly worthy of discussion - even debate! Thanks for introducing it! Yes, Miki – I’m sure many of us are keeping you company in that regard, although whether we are good company or not is another question. Your link is to an HBS bit that suggests we need to look below people’s conscious thoughts to their subconscious processes to influence behavior. That’s an interesting thought; certainly worthy of discussion – even debate! Thanks for introducing it!

]]> By: Miki http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/06/23/why-change/comment-page-1/#comment-7193 Miki Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:26:58 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=540#comment-7193 I'm fighting off the sad conclusion that thinking, especially deep thinking, is out of style. But at least I'm in <a href="http://www.rampupsolutions.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/what-thinking-reflects/" rel="nofollow">good company</a>. I’m fighting off the sad conclusion that thinking, especially deep thinking, is out of style. But at least I’m in good company.

]]> By: Jim Stroup http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/06/23/why-change/comment-page-1/#comment-7192 Jim Stroup Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:53:36 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=540#comment-7192 Hi Miki, That's right, isn't it? Spending the time to be sure you know what you're doing makes you look indecisive. But we know that people tend to - even look for reasons to - confuse activity for progress, so we just do something which we disguise with blind assertiveness. Then we throw faddish but meaningless jargon around the area like flak, distracting attention and discouraging serious inquiry. Unfortunately, there are too many instances of this sort of thing at numerous levels and in all kinds of organizations. The frothy vocabulary of the change movement doesn't help clarify matters. Thanks for your visit! Hi Miki,

That’s right, isn’t it? Spending the time to be sure you know what you’re doing makes you look indecisive.

But we know that people tend to – even look for reasons to – confuse activity for progress, so we just do something which we disguise with blind assertiveness. Then we throw faddish but meaningless jargon around the area like flak, distracting attention and discouraging serious inquiry.

Unfortunately, there are too many instances of this sort of thing at numerous levels and in all kinds of organizations. The frothy vocabulary of the change movement doesn’t help clarify matters.

Thanks for your visit!

]]> By: Miki http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/06/23/why-change/comment-page-1/#comment-7190 Miki Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:47:09 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=540#comment-7190 Jim, why should the 'why' of change be any different than all the other 'whys' that people sidestep? Identifying, thinking about and understanding 'why' takes effort. It's much easier to bury the 'why' under pop language and previous sound bites that have the added benefit of making the speaker sound smarter than he is. Jim, why should the ‘why’ of change be any different than all the other ‘whys’ that people sidestep?

Identifying, thinking about and understanding ‘why’ takes effort. It’s much easier to bury the ‘why’ under pop language and previous sound bites that have the added benefit of making the speaker sound smarter than he is.

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