1. CREATE! Initiating Change and Inventing the Future

2. Change is Inevitable Life will change. The only question is . . . will it get better or will it get worse?

3. Change is Constant The need to change never ends. Once you change, it is time to change again.

4. General MotorsWilliam Durant From horse-drawn carts, to engine-powered cars. The time to change is before you have to, while you’re still successful. Don’t just adapt to events. Create the future.

5. Change Cycle • Innovators • Early adopters • Early majority • Late majority • Laggards

6. Change Change isn’t good or bad. It all depends on how you respond to it.

7. Four Responses • Ignorance • Resistance • Anticipation • Creation

8. Response 1:Ignorance Unaware of changes. Unconcerned about potential changes.

9. Response 2:Resistance Once we finally discover changes, we often resist them.

10. Response 2:Resistance Change always involves loss. Even staying the same doesn’t protect us from loss.

11. Potential Losses • Power • Relationships • Competence • Identity • Security • Certainty

12. Types of Resistance • Deny We don’t need to change • Attack We can stop the change • Negotiate We can change the change • Withdraw We won’t participate

13. Proactive vs. Reactive Ignorance and Resistance are reactive. This is how most people respond to change. Anticipation and Creation are proactive. This is how effective people respond to change.

14. Response 3:Anticipation • Predict – be a meteorologist • Find patterns • Explore • Prepare • Adapt • Evolve

15. Poor Predictions “I think there is a world market for five computers.” - Thomas Watson, IBM

16. Poor Predictions “I don’t see why anyone would need a computer in their home.” - Ken Olsen, DEC

17. Poor Predictions “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Bill Gates, Microsoft

18. Response 4:Creation • Innovate • Initiate • Propose • Develop

19. Response 4:Creation It’s actually harder to keep things the same, than it is to allow them to change.

20. Response 4:Creation “Be the change you want to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

21. Response 4:Creation “If I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country, and, who knows, I may have even changed the world.” - from the tomb of an Anglican Bishop

22. Response 4:Creation Effective and successful people change the world by changing themselves.

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