As change practitioners, we each bring our own lens to our work. For some, it is an HR lens, or IT, or OD. Yours might be a change management lens, or project management, or strategy execution. Perhaps it is the lens of a therapist, coach, or mentor. Each perspective is important; each gives us different insights and can contribute to charting the path to successful execution. However, all too often in charting—and traveling—that path, we lose sight of a fundamental truth…All change is personal.
It doesn’t matter whether the change begins at the organizational—or even the societal—level. It doesn’t matter whether the catalyst is a Supreme Court ruling, a merger, or a decision to make a job (or career) change. For those affected by any change, that change is personal. And, the more it disrupts the current state of things, the more personal the change is.
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