RE: Re: Sticking point

I think there is something like "a psychology of change".

When faced by change people may react in different ways.  It depends on what
changes, how it changes, the perceived risk, and also on how many different
other changes are being accumulated.

If XP asks people to:
- make organisational changes
- make technical changes
- make personal changes
it may become too much for some.

Change in an organisation is non trivial, certainly in bigger organisations.
We must be very careful with the dimensions of the changes that we are
trying to bring about.

Therefore revolution meets a lot of resistance, and evolution is often much
easier to digest.

It's not about won't, can't, don't.  It's about being careful to respect the
nature of being human.

"Embrace change" ... some people make it sound so easy and I can tell for
some people it is very hard.  Those people are not stupid, they are not
unfriendly, ... they are normal.

I want to make changes happen for normal people.  I think it can be done.

Stefan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrey Khavryuchenko [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [XC] Re: Sticking point
> 
> 
> Dale,
> 
> "DE" == Dale Emery wrote:
> 
>  DE> Sometimes "we can't do that" means one of those things.  
> I like to
>  DE> take it at face value, at least at first.  My trouble is 
> that it can
>  DE> mean one of (at least) two things:  "something prevents 
> us from X" or
>  DE> "we expect something bad to happen if we do X, so we 
> choose not to do
>  DE> X."  And I often can't tell from the context which 
> meaning the speaker
>  DE> intends.
> 
>  DE> So I try to find out which meaning.  
> 
> Well, but that _is_ asking "why you *won't* do that?".  In your later
> example, the moment of choice is explicit.  In the former one 
> it's implicit
> and it would be usefull to make in explicit.  I've not met a 
> single case
> when such statement was like "the laws of physics prevent us 
> from X".  Most
> frequent the 'something' is a belief or fear or both.
> 
> -- 
> Andrey V Khavryuchenko            http://www.kds.com.ua/
> Silver Bullet Software Solutions  http://www.kds.com.ua/edu/
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