Embrace Change: Dance Through Life Instead of Leaning on a Cane

A note to young leaders.
Last Sunday, I was waiting in a queue to be seated at a restaurant. Got talking with a charming eighty-eight year old lady with a walking stick. As she headed off, she turned to me and said, somewhat dramatically: “When I stand, I need a cane. But I can dance without it, if someone holds me.”

That got me thinking about life, change, standing still and dancing.

Change is inevitable, you can count on it. (There’s something oddly comforting about that.)
So why are we always so surprised when change happens? Why is it that most of us are afraid of change?
Why do we resist it so much?

And why do we so often choose to stand still with a cane, than embrace change and dance with it?

When change comes: tango, waltz, foxtrot, rumba. You choose. But dance – it sure beats standing still with a cane.