Become the Vessel

Evacuate the idea that you are in control of outcomes. You are not. Take an honest inventory of how many times you made a plan and how often that plan unfolded accordingly.

Enough said.

You make decisions – lots of them – in the direction of intentional thinking. You strategically structure that thinking to contain and cast it well. Then you work the change progressively, incrementally, iteratively.

This happens within a designed forcefield of change, not as a result of your ego death-gripping the process.

You act as an agent of the change you intend. You read what is present and move accordingly – discerning, deliberating, knitting the insights, cues, and signals as they arrive. Nature has its own ideas – better ones, generally – about the potential it wants distributed into the world.

As a practitioner of progressive change, you are nature's vessel. Becoming her best vessel is the work.

This is everything the lore of change management is not.