Change

The law of nature:
Nothing but change is constant.
Humans are always resistant to change.
This states that the human aspect of nature defies this very law.
The question arises why we are not resilient to change?
Let me summarize the possible reasons for this:-
1) Change poses threat to status quo
2) Change brings in new things which challenges the existing state
3) Change talks about future; the envisaged state that has to be attained.
4) Change reflects badly upon the existing state which may have no perils in the present.
5) Change may talk about abandoning the existing principles and values.
Now let me explore the human element with respect to change.
Management theorists and so called Gurus have discovered that People do not want to work.
An existing state can be considered as a state of monotony and comfort where people are up the learning curve and the state is as easy as the state where none of us are working.
Now let's discuss about the process of change.
Let me exemplify this with the act of adding color to ice.
If you directly add color to ice only the upper layer will be colored.
Metaphorically an unplanned change may go in vain.
However if you melt the ice and then add color to it and then refreeze it, color will delve to the lowest layer.
My point is if change is carried out in these three steps ie
First the proponents of change should be endowed with enough vision and wisdom to make others realize the shortcomings of the present state
The next step is to convince them that the envisaged state is for the betterment of all.
Then the changes should be swept across without any further resistance.
The best way is to design the plan of change in such a way whereby change passes by continuously at each stage without being experienced much by the stakeholders of change.
If the objective of change is attained unnoticed at the lower levels in an organization
The outcome of this drive can be phenomenal.
The general psychology of human is actually driven by the ease by which any objective can be fulfilled. One in a million would like to give up the comfort and ease of status quo which has given nothing but a mental comfort and physical discomfort over a period of time.
The devilish acceptance and persistence of status quo in human mind is the absence of zeal and the insecurity of the envisaged future.
Stockholm syndrome is yet another example that is evident of the challenges the human mind can face in the acceptance of Change.
Human mind is nourished by a host of factors before it comes to a stage of maturity where some values and principles take a formal precedence in any future action.
Hereditary factors that are dominant at the time of birth, start taking backstage when an individual starts meeting people in different institutions at different stages of life. Most of these changes graduate slowly in the human and inadvertently he becomes a victim to this gradual metamorphosis.
These small changes in human development slowly perpetuate in the creation of a solid framework of mind and the individual cannot transgress this limit until and unless there is a vigorous quiver that disturbs the placidness of his thought process."Man cannot outgrow his skin".
Change is a natural, continuous, gradual and irresistible process.
Individuals keep changing mentally as well as physically from birth till death.
A retrospective analysis of Change can show us that every existing state is always a result of change that may be either a natural phenomenon or a man made phenomenon.

Why Human mind is so resistant to change when he himself is a result of continuous change?
Now, we are at ease to segregate change in two broad categories.
1) Forcible Change
2) Inadvertent Change
Forcible Change:
Changes brought about by nature:-
· A Volcanic eruption
· An Earthquake
· A sudden storm in the sea
· The 'Big Bang' , that resulted in the formation of the seven Continents and the formation of the Great Himalayas in place of Tethys.




..................................To be continued