Changing habits and getting out of your comfort zone have always been recognized as among the most difficult actions to perform. Even if rationally you accept change, when you find yourself in complex situations or working under stress it is natural to tend to replicate “old” patterns of behavior.
Today we are called to face above all adaptive changes and, in order to deal with them, we require people who live them and who lead/manage them to have a different thinking approach and especially new skills.
This approach of thought must necessarily address non-traditional areas for those people involved in business organization such as: neuroscience, quantum physics and evolutionary biology. Disciplines that offer useful indications on the functioning of organizations and, in particular, on the way people think and act.
Whoever plays a leading role, in order to be a “real” agent of change, must not only innovate, starting from himself, but manage innovation and the processes that underlie it; a task that is increasingly difficult. Innovation, in fact, is not only “composed” of materiality and technology, but it is also increasingly referable to networks of relationships, organizational models, people, values and meanings, myths. The problem is to understand how to best manage these different dimensions.
What is required for entrepreneurs and managers is a behavioral metamorphosis that can be linked to some specific “challenges”:
- open the mind;
- spend some time fantasising;
- make the mistake an opportunity;
- being curious and hungry;
- being non-conformist.
And, above all, prepare for the unexpected. Keep in mind that the unexpected often surprises us. The fact is that we are “anchored” with great certainty to our theories and ideas, and that these often have no capacity to welcome the new. The new will come but we can never predict how it will present itself.
