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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Same Old Change
I am an antique car buff and have serveral cars from the 1950's. The section on the dialectic of change and stability reminded me of an adevertising slogan used to promote '58 Chevy's, which had been completely redesigned from the previous year: "New All Over - All Over Again." I think the slogan captures the dialectic of change, as well as its institutionalization. Today, I rarely pay attention when I hear the words "new" or "change" because the novelty of change has worn off, and change has become an expectation. Although necessary if an organization is to have a long term future, some referents to existing systems must be maintained so that organizations do not destabilized to the point of ineffectiveness.
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I agree with you when you say that the novelty of change has worn off. I think this may have to do with the rapidity in industrialization in the past few decades, where there have been umpteen inventions added to our daily lives, much more quickly than at any time in the past. Cell phones were a novelty in the 1980's, but nowadays, their use is taken for granted by most people, to the extent that we are not impressed even by the grandest mobile phones with a camera, internet and computing capability. In fact, people actually give up on a carrier that does not make an effort to amuse the customer with newer features.
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