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I've decided to add a new area to the MTB blog in homage to my past company. ‘Love Change’
is perhaps not the best slogan for a company to live by, as having now left the
company I have truly embraced it. As an individual however, Love Change is most
definitely a very important aspect of life.
I have
decided to leave my past employer. As it can become true with most strategies,
you realise your positioning and direction has gone as far as it can within its
current environment.
Also what I
have found to become true when looking for a new challenge, with uncertainty
comes less change. People lock themselves down within their current roles,
securing their niche and go into safe mode forgetting about the aspirations
they may have had to progress. Recruiters explained to me repeatedly about how
employees are more interested in trying to protect themselves against the
change their company may be pushed to inflict against them.
We surely
all want to be in control of our own destinies and by wrapping ourselves up in
a corporate protective blanket this does quite the opposite. This also leads to
a less profitable company and strategically it’s not going to allow us to keep
pace with the East, or even get out of the economic trough we sit in.
I hate to
throw the phrase of ‘in these economic times’ around negatively as I believe its
times like these that you can really make a name for yourself. It shouldn't be
something used in order to justify delay or safety.
I have no interest
in stagnating. I know that if we do love change and aspire to take on new
challenges and achieve new goals we won’t be following companies like:
-Kodak
failing to recognise the importance of digital cameras
-Sony
unable to keep control of the portable music market on from the Walkman
-Blockbuster
not realising the shift to digital movie rental
All I know
is we all have goals we wish to achieve. If the goals we have set for ourselves
are challenging enough then we will need to change certain things to achieve
them, lets not allow ourselves to fall into limbo.
Good old Walt Disney has something to add:
"In this volatile business of ours, we can ill afford to rest
on our laurels, even to pause in retrospect. Times and conditions change so
rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future." —Walt
Disney
