This change doesn't make you any less efficient, nor is it wrong. But it feels weird and we almost immediately want to change it back.
That's how most change programs feel in our companies. They don't create inefficiencies nor are they wrong. But they feel weird because we have to create new habits. We have to reach on the other side of our bodies to grab the phone. We have to flip the other wrist to tell time. We have to reach into a different pocket to pay for things.
Changing back is easy for these examples. It's also easy in our companies. We'll revert to past practices unless there's no way to revert back. Unless you've had an unfortunate accident, like Bethany Hamilton in Soul Surfer
Change program will fail and you'll continue to get the same results. You'll hope for different results but you won't change. And that's insane, as defined by Einstein. There's probably a pill for that so you won't notice or care that your company is just plodding along not getting any more success. Until you change.
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