There’s Nothing Permanent Except Change

Jonathan Foxx, Ph.D., MBA Chairman & Managing Director

July 7, 2022 Question You have written about something called “change management.” When I first read it, I thought it was some kind of a joke. I know we’re highly regulated, but how can you make us change our management? Then I read on, and I guess it’s no joke.  Apparently, change management is a thing. It has to do with managing change, not changing management. That was the extent of my interest until an examiner asked for our change management policy. Say what?  Anyway, we scrambled and put one together. The examiner accepted it. Problem solved. But maybe not. It is missing something I would dearly like to have: a checklist! I want a basic checklist for change management.  Can you provide a checklist for change management? Answer As Lao Tzu said, ‘if you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.’  Yes, change management is about managing change.  But would you know change if you encountered it?  Would you recognize change after the change has already happened?  Can you anticipate how to manage change if you realize its necessity?  As the title of this article says, quoting Heraclitus, “there’s nothing permanent except change.” Are you ready for it?

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