Career success requires the management of change

Career success requires the management of change Change is certain and constant. Benjamin Franklin would have been appropriate to add   "change" for his motto that "death and taxes are the only certainties in life." We are inundated every day with new relationships, new ways of doing things, new   Expectations and new information. The total of all knowledge is doubling every five   Years. E 'was estimated that 75 percent of all workers will   recycling in 2010, and now high school graduates will be prepared   to change jobs or career, at least 10 times in their lifetimes.The how to react to the change brings a direct correlation with our career   May Success.We resist change? deny its existence, to continue doing things the same   means, because that is how we have always done. Then there will be buried with   other relics of the past, from what the author calls Alvin Toffler, "Future   Shock. "We can only accept change and move together with the world, producing for us. If so,   you dance on cue that the music of violinist chooses play.BECOME AN AGENT CHANGEOr one can recognize that change is inevitable and adopt it. We can become   agents of change, so we have a hand in shaping the environment in which we live   and determination of our successful alteative is clear: is the content to remain with the old and familiar, accepting   the idea that the comfort of a small family deserves to be forgotten in   on.In markets of the world to live the change, we must realize that success is never achieved.   Climbers have said: "You never conquer the mountain. You stand on   Summit of a few moments, then the wind blows your footprints away. "Peter Drucker, the guru of the head of management, said:" ... Success is always   the organization to abandon what has been achieved. There is no   More difficult. "This means trying new ideas and unknown, land titles, unthinkable thoughts.   E 'uncomfortable, but always fascinating territory. But it can be dangerous.   However, like it or not, this is where the gold is found.Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, in early 1500: "There is nothing more difficult   to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success, as   take the lead in establishing a new order of things, because innovation is   for the enemies of all those that took place under the old and warm   defenders of those who do good in May under the new. "George Beard Shaw wrote:" Progress is impossible without change, and those who   can not change their minds can not change anything. "Being an agent of change and a beneficiary requires flexibility and imagination, as   and courage.CHANGE AMBIGUITY HANDMAIDENSBut And, above all, to prosper in a changing environment, we must be able to   thrive in ambiguity, because the uncertainty is the servant of constant change.   Change and ambiguity are against human nature, many people simply   Can not tolerate this situation. They want everything in order and ready answers for   All questions. Unfortunately, this is not the kind of career success flux.The organizations to recognize this truth and that the supply of uncertainties   the possibility of answers and leadership. Confidence in their ability and   the future, will seize the moment. Nobody ever said that it would be easy. But common sense tells us that we have not   Choice that change? increasing the pace? is a safe bet. We   also know that if we do not change ourselves and change in   organization in which we live and work, there can be progress.Greenwood is a former Senior Vice President of American Express. For more information   on your E-Book on "relationshhips boss" and to subscribe to his f * ee semi-monthly   Contact with him to the newsletter   Ramon@commonsenseatwork.com