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The Inconvenience of Change

The End [of the Beginning]

18 comments June 5, 2009

As one door closes, another opens
For just over a month here at Life Without Pants I have taken a step back and have let you, the readers, share your personal voice on change. Some people may have thought this was crazy – some may say it was detrimental to my personal brand, and others may [...]

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The Inconvenience of Change: Business Edition [Ryan Stephens]

14 comments June 4, 2009

What if railroad companies thought of themselves as transportation companies instead of just people who built tracks? What if the music industry embraced file sharing? What if the newspaper industry embraced new media from the onset?
Is Exxon Mobil an oil company or an energy company?
Change is inconvenient. Not only in [...]

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Establishing Lasting Change [Irina Issakova]

8 comments June 3, 2009

Everyone can change. Yes, even you!
My cousin Nadia lives in Russia. I love her to death and consider her one of my two best friends in the world. But within spending two hours with her, I want to bite her head off. She has an extremely complicated personality and to all attempts at suggesting to [...]

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The Inconvenience of Change: The Sour Grapes of Lost Control [Chelsie Guillemet]

2 comments June 2, 2009

Without change, where would we be?
As I read over your fantastic perspectives on change, I have to ask why we need so much help dealing with it. I mean, literally speaking, change is the continuation of life. No matter your perspective, you can’t ignore how change started the world’s engines-without it, you wouldn’t have breathed [...]

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Change: Stop Resisting and Start Soaring! [Susan Pogorzelski]

19 comments June 1, 2009

Change scares me.
Most people I know are afraid of snakes or spiders or heights. But for me, these things are simple nuisances, minor annoyances that I can deal with.
Loss. Failure. Uncertainty. These are all abstract things I can’t reason, sometimes can’t understand, and most certainly can never control.
These are the things that scare me.
And these [...]

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