Cheshire Cat Grins


Living systems act to preserve their own identity. For our current global corporations and governmental bureaucracies that means investing a fortune through ‘development’ programmes and MBAs that act to preserve the status quo. So why do they all pretend to be teaching people about change?

'It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!'

Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Our human organisations form to respond to needs and opportunities in their environment. They have to adapt to service these needs, but as the environment changes most whither and die. They can't learn how to be lithe and agile. They can't evolve quickly enough. They go bankrupt, get sold off, split up, vanish from our consciousness, sometimes leaving only a Cheshire Cat grin that is the brand.

The reason we don’t truly become Change Makers is that we don’t want to. We really want to preserve things as they are, right up until the moment that they inevitably die.

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