Change is the evidence of life. Without change, there is no growth, no evolution. My intention for change is simple: simplify, liberate and create. Simplicity liberates us to create what we truly value.
How to Create Change is a site dedicated to exploring ways to create lasting change that works for individuals, organisations and communities. I believe change works differently for everybody. Knowledge of the different ways to change allows us to find which best suits us. That way we accelerate the change and make it stick.
Three things that motivate me to develop this site:
- Inspire individual capability and capacity for change. We pack our already busy lives with so many ambitions, goals, stretching ourselves in too many directions, accumulating unnecessary baggage of external expectations. We want more. We want to be better. We work harder. Yet old patterns continue their tyranny making change almost impossible. We can be the change we want to see. It’s an inside-out job that we are capable of.
- Advocate elegant and efficient approaches to organisational change. Over the past decade, I observed increasing complexity in the way change is managed. Some initiatives collapse from the heavyweight of linear methodologies rather than be transformed from the natural flow of dynamic, integrated models of implementation. Impacts of poor change management can be very personal: increased stress at work, demoralisation, loss of passion, disenfranchisement, redundancies, etc. Billions of dollars every year is spent on change initiatives, yet only 30% are successful. So many resources are wasted, so much pain created, with not much to show for.
- Share and learn more about positive social change — the process of researching, gathering and sharing success stories create seeds for transforming society.
Change may not be easy, but it is simple once we find the difference that makes the difference. Through this site, together, we may discover something that would make a difference in our lives, organisations or even our communities.
This site is a work in progress. I aim to continuously improve. Your feedback would be very helpful and I would appreciate if you leave comments.
Carpe diem!
Rona Puntawe
Administrator