One of the most startling challenges I will put to a client comes from my bastardization of a Zen aphorism: This being so, so what? Things being as they are, what will you do about it?
Jerry Colonna in Reboot
Archives for February 2020
Highlight from ‘Managing Transitions’ by William Bridges, Susan Bridges
The failure to identify and get ready for endings and losses is the largest difficulty for people in transition. And the failure to provide help with endings and losses leads to more problems for organizations in transition than anything else.
William Bridges, Susan Bridges in Managing Transitions
Highlight from ‘Managing Transitions’ by William Bridges, Susan Bridges
People seem to “overreact” to a change when they are reacting more than we are. But when we think that way, we overlook two things: first, that changes cause transitions, which cause losses, and it is the losses, not the changes, that they’re reacting to; and second, that it’s a piece of their world that is being lost, not a piece of ours, and we often react that way ourselves when it’s part of our own world that is being lost. Being reasonable is much easier if you have little or nothing at stake.
William Bridges, Susan Bridges in Managing Transitions
Highlight from ‘Managing Transitions’ by William Bridges, Susan Bridges
One of the most important leadership roles during times of change is that of putting into words what it is time to leave behind.
William Bridges, Susan Bridges in Managing Transitions
Highlight from ‘Invisible Women’ by Caroline Criado Perez
When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default.
Caroline Criado Perez in Invisible Women
Highlight from ‘Managing Transitions’ by William Bridges, Susan Bridges
Yesterday’s ending launched today’s success, and today will have to end if tomorrow’s changes are to take place. Endings are not comfortable for any of us. But they are also neither unprecedented breaks with the past nor attempts by those in power to make people’s lives miserable.
William Bridges, Susan Bridges in Managing Transitions