Our leaders often ask us to make changes. Sometimes they are small, but other times the changes are big. So you have to decide whether you are willing to do the work that comes with making change. When we resist that change, our leaders will often say that we have “change fatigue”. But I think that we might actually have “failure to change fatigue”.
What I mean by that is that our leaders ask us all to do the work of making change, but then they move on from the change they asked you to make and on to a different change. Then those leaders come around and ask to start work on the next big thing they have. So maybe the problem is that our leaders are not always committed to the change that they ask others to make. That’s why I call it the “failure to change fatigue.
Don Berwick reminds us that “all improvement is change, but not all change is an improvement”. Good things to consider when you are asking others to make a change.