Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Yes, I absolutely agree with Drucker's comments that learning is a lifelong process. There are definitely increasing demands for learning in every field and in all workplaces. And that's a good thing for the for-profit education industry!

Bill, thanks for coming by ... and for sharing your ideas. Do you see for-profit education industries as keeping up with or invested in much that is implied Drucker's call for lifelong learning?

Yes, I agree with Peter Drucker. Foolish not to. However, I think what is more important is the reality that change is normal and no change is abnormal. Somewhere, we have gotten the notion that change is a bad thing. That stability, stasis, is good. Rather I think sustainable, flexible growth is the good thing and everything is else is a commitment to decline. As I ask all my clients - "Are your best years behind you or ahead of you?" If behind, then you have made a commitment to decline. If in in the future, then a commitment to change and growth. The only way we can embrace change is to learn from it. To crawl into its context and understand precisely what is going on and then maximize the opportunity that this perspective presents. As you can tell, I like change. It is healthy, entertaining and very fulfilling, when approached in the right way.

Thanks Ed, this is the beginning of a brilliant book -- there are so many things that people would quote and keep and use to find inspiration for the change you make so motivational.

As I read this I was thinking of the brain's propensity to rewire daily... and of nature's constant change. How ever did we begin to so resist change... with flux all around us?

Ed - great comments. One of the things that strikes me is that (hand in hand with change) people often consider conflict to be bad. Conflict (if it's mature consideration of methods or directions that are potentially in opposition to each other) is a great thing! Conflict is like the first step in a 12 step program - it's knowing you have a problem (or an opportunity) and working through it no matter how uncomfortable it becomes.

This is a great series of posts on change Ellen (although I'm reading them backwards - so forgive me if my comments are a little off!)

Thanks for your interesting comments Ed and Ann... What a great post that would make from all os us. Conflict -- Good or Bad -- in the process of Organizational Change. What do you think?