"Here we go again," does this sound familiar? Some changes do indeed resemble a history that seems to repeat itself. Maybe you have experienced a dj vu; "the unsettling sensation of knowing that a situation could not have been experienced, combined with the feeling that it has." (http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/513/s5.htm) When you hear the expression this seems like a dj vu when your organization is dealing with change, then you should wonder whether your organization is doing the right things, or are they engaged in a more-of-the-same game. Starting all over in a new environment is not what change is (all) about, although it could help. Especially the idea of starting a new business, a new relationship or a new job; if you didnt, then nothing really changed. To avoid a new dj vu, you should engage yourself to a real change. And as with the dj vu, memory is important. It is important to know or to be consciously aware of how you do things. Others can often tell you better than you are able for yourself. If you switch a job, than the first weeks and months may seem new, but after a while it comes down to your input in the process to make a difference. And if you didn't succeed in certain cases in your previous job, although you are more experienced, you will not succeed in the new job either. Unless... Unless you have learned about the way you approach situations and when this was giving results and in what cases it didn't. So, even though the situation is different than before you are able to make the same kind of mistakes. Therefore for real changes you need the right memory. Not the memory where you kept all the names of your former colleagues, but a memory where you have saved your success formulas (and some minor failures). Only if you do know what you did and how you did it in the past, only if you learn from your mistakes in the past, only then you will be able to make real changes. Otherwise you are doing just more-of-the-same up to the moment where you encounter the next dj vu... 2006 Hans Bool |
