Comments on: Building Change into your DNA http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2005/05/29/building-change-into-your-dna/ Blogging about Tomorrow's world Today Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: maidenmole http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2005/05/29/building-change-into-your-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-191 maidenmole Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:08:04 +0000 http://www.tmtd.biz/2005/05/28/building-change-into-your-dna/#comment-191 I'm never sure if I like Microsoft or not. But their latest ad campaign is interesting. Splashed all over the billboards are pictures people with dinosaur masks, caption reading "Microsoft has evolved. Have you?". "Software Development" is a verb in the present future tense, present continuous, etc, etc which we need to continuously keep abreast of. I’m never sure if I like Microsoft or not. But their latest ad campaign is interesting. Splashed all over the billboards are pictures people with dinosaur masks, caption reading “Microsoft has evolved. Have you?”. “Software Development” is a verb in the present future tense, present continuous, etc, etc which we need to continuously keep abreast of.

]]> By: Graeme http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2005/05/29/building-change-into-your-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Graeme Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:53:21 +0000 http://www.tmtd.biz/2005/05/28/building-change-into-your-dna/#comment-157 Maidenmole makes a good point. The only way you know you're alive is that you're changing. In nature, a good enough definition of being dead is "not changing". Maidenmole makes a good point. The only way you know you’re alive is that you’re changing. In nature, a good enough definition of being dead is “not changing”.

]]> By: Bushcamp http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2005/05/29/building-change-into-your-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Bushcamp Mon, 30 May 2005 15:26:45 +0000 http://www.tmtd.biz/2005/05/28/building-change-into-your-dna/#comment-141 I think boarding schools and Dr Spock have a lot to account for. I spent 18 years rebelling against an enforced routine that meant I had to do things in a certain way and at a certain time. Woe betide the friends that arrive before your rest time was over, or knock on your door unexpectedly. Or the new secretary that brings tea half an hour before you “should� have it. Do we really need routine? It gives us security, a sense of certainty, but we all know that nothing is certain, and yet we still cling to it, we plan projects and business decisions around it. That is not to say we don’t need discipline, but routine and discipline are not the same. A routine can give you discipline, but discipline does not need a routine. How much more could be achieved if we changed our routine to fit in with our environment, rather than our own needs, and how much more secure we would feel if we knew that we were adaptable enough to cope with whatever came our way, especially if it is unexpected. I think boarding schools and Dr Spock have a lot to account for. I spent 18 years rebelling against an enforced routine that meant I had to do things in a certain way and at a certain time. Woe betide the friends that arrive before your rest time was over, or knock on your door unexpectedly. Or the new secretary that brings tea half an hour before you “should� have it. Do we really need routine? It gives us security, a sense of certainty, but we all know that nothing is certain, and yet we still cling to it, we plan projects and business decisions around it.

That is not to say we don’t need discipline, but routine and discipline are not the same. A routine can give you discipline, but discipline does not need a routine.

How much more could be achieved if we changed our routine to fit in with our environment, rather than our own needs, and how much more secure we would feel if we knew that we were adaptable enough to cope with whatever came our way, especially if it is unexpected.

]]> By: maidenmole http://www.connectioneconomy.com/2005/05/29/building-change-into-your-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-135 maidenmole Mon, 30 May 2005 06:43:29 +0000 http://www.tmtd.biz/2005/05/28/building-change-into-your-dna/#comment-135 Perhaps, too obvious, but the fact that our bodies change continuously! Since my waist size has been expanding, the need to accept change in the way I shop for clothes has made a case for constant change. Perhaps, too obvious, but the fact that our bodies change continuously! Since my waist size has been expanding, the need to accept change in the way I shop for clothes has made a case for constant change.

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