Change is hard. Change is also time-consuming: right now I’m buried in meetings and focus groups and creative projects for everyplace from Mexico to Thailand and beyond. But, enough excuses. Here is a collection of interesting links until I can find time to be interesting again.
One Undeniably Adorable Singer On The Subject of Change
Let’s start with Zooey Deschanel singing “Change Is Hard”.
Five Undeniably Useful Change Links
- Neuroscience And Why Change Hurts, from Francois Gossieaux
- 10 Principles of Change Management, from Strategy + Business
- Social Media Will Change Your Business, from BusinessWeek
- How To Change The World, an indispensable blog from Guy Kawasaki
- Change Quotations Page. My favorite? “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.” Aldous Huxley said it, and he was right.
A Whole Bunch of Change Jokes
I made the first one up myself and stole the rest (many of which have a philosophy bent) from here.
How many Social Media Consultants does it take to change a light bulb?
You don’t get to decide if the light bulb needs to be changed. Your CUSTOMERS decide.
You’re welcome. And oh yeah, here’s my invoice for a million dollars.
The remainder of these were found at Bill Adams’ website:
How many Analytic Philosophers does it take to change a light bulb?
None. It’s a pseudo-problem. Light bulbs give off light (hence the name).
You’re still thinking in terms of incremental change–we don’t need a bulb with more attributes. We need paradigm shift to ubiquitous luminescence.
How many solipsists does it take to change a light bulb?
Don’t be silly, there is only one solipsist.
How many deconstructionists does it take to change a light bulb?
On the contrary, the Nile is the longest river in Africa.
How many Kantians does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: One to change the phenomenal bulb; and one to explain that we might not be changing the bulb-in-itself.
How many speech act theorists does it take to change a light bulb?
Do you really want to know or are you asking me to change it?
How many phenomenologists does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, but by the time she gets through with it, a 100-watt bulb is reduced to a night light.
How many skeptics does it take to change a light bulb?
Actually, they won’t do it–they they aren’t sure they’re really in the dark.
How many modal logicians does it take to change a light bulb?
In which world?
How many fatalists does it take to change a light bulb?
None, why fight it?
How many Hegelians does it take to change a light bulb?
None. The bulb is just at one dialectical pole between ‘bright’ and ‘dark’–it will eventually glow again.
How many decision theorists does it take to change a light bulb?
Probably two.
How many constructivists does it take to change a light bulb?
Your question just perpetuates the myth of objectivity.
How many union of electrical workers members does it take to change a light bulb?
Twelve. You got a problem with that?
How many existentialists does it take to change a light bulb?
Two–one to bemoan the darkness until the other defines something else as light.
How many Creationists does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change it, and one to point out that no transitional forms occurred.
How many Kuhnian philosophers of science does it take to change a light bulb?
You’re still thinking in terms of incremental change–we don’t need a bulb with more attributes. We need a paradigm shift to ubiquitous luminescence.
Love the social media consultant joke!!!