Change is good. It moves us forward and challenges us to create and innovate. Change is bad. The disruptions create havoc and stress. Since Management One® is all about helping businesses manage and even create change, understanding when change is good or not is important. In today’s fast paced world where TV ads promise you can lose weight in days, build muscle in weeks or get rich in months, we expect that huge improvements should be within our grasp immediately. Of course, none of these ads can consistently deliver on the promises they make! Fast change is usually not good change. Like an earthquake, the fast change leaves disruption in its path. When change is an event, it is normally difficult to predict and impossible to control. The best we can do is frantically adapt to make the best of the new situation.

 

When change is a process, there is a huge opportunity for a business to manage, wisely adapt and prosper from the transition. These changes are trends, forecasts and sometimes demographic shifts that occur slowly over time.

 

Recognizing the change is the first challenge. Developing processes that take advantage of the change is step two. The last step is implementing the adaptations to the change. Winning@Business™, Winning@Retail™ and Winning@Marketing are all based on moving businesses to implement adaptations to take advantage of the “good change”.