Perhaps one of the most feared and yet revered words in a leader’s vocabulary; Change can take on a multitude of connotations depending on your point of view in any given situation. Most often it is looked at as negative, being that it often it disrupts what we know and are comfortable with. At the same time every leader knows that change undoubtedly creates opportunity and sparks innovation.
In an excerpt from his book, “Management Challenges for the 21st Century,” Peter Drucker suggests that to thrive in the new millennium, managers must do more than adapt to change: they have to lead it… and I couldn’t agree more.
I thought the following was a very insightful video on the subject, as Carly Fiorina (former CEO of HP from 1999-2005) speaks to students at Stanford University on the dynamics of change and fear. She notes that entrepreneurship is about risk-taking, and speaks to its association with tackling innovation. Fiorina concludes that asserting change involves gathering enough energy and force to overcome the power of the status quo. Sounds easy…don’t you think?
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