hiding in the shadows

It’s 27 degrees or so, and close enough that if I had hair, it would be plastered to my forehead. Stifling, still and bug laden; the very air carries the promise of thunder and a good storm in all it’s daylight sucking, tree shaking, downpours and hail would be very welcome right now. Somehow fitting.

I’m sat in a conference room, crammed in like cattle on Yeovil market day. It’s only 10:00 am but already people look like they’ve put in a full days work, and by the looks of it, it’s been a bad day. It’s that time again, a time when senior management decide that the old rules need to be changed, that structures etc etc just HAVE to go. Fine, maybe they do, maybe they don’t. That’s why they’re managers and I’m not, I just don’t have the cutthroat quality required to manage teams of people.

Organisational change. There I’ve done it, I’ve used a piece of management bullshit on my beloved diary, but as Robert C. Gallagher wrote, Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. You have two choices, embrace it or leave. Actually thinking about it there are three choices, the third option being to keep your head down, do your day job, hide in the shadows and let the dust settle. Accept that the change process is taking place, keep engaged with where it’s heading and give your thoughts where they are of use but for the most part stop worrying and remember what’s important in life. Do enough that people remember why you’re such a good employee, but don’t get sucked in to the maelstrom of negativity that surrounds change.

As succinctly put in the high brow literary classic film Waynes World:

We fear change…

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