Monthly Archives: October 2009

Creative destruction really just means change, albeit change in major ways. As the authors write in Getting to Maybe, “Change of this kind is always difficult. It often means stopping doing something we have done for years. It may mean leaving a job, ending a program, abandoning an approach or a system that has served us well. But the adaptive cycle tells us that unless we release the resources of time, energy, money and skill locked up in our routines and our institutions on a regular basis, it is hard to create anything new or to look at things from a different perspective. Without those new perspectives, and the continuous infusion of novelty and innovation in our lives, our organizations and our systems, there is a slow but definite loss of resilience, and an increase in rigidity.” Furthermore, “change is necessary. And for some that change will feel like a loss of the cherished, familiar and safe.” Continue reading →