Friday, November 19, 2010

Why do we resist change?

Sometimes it looks like we would rather fight lions than look at ourselves. We would rather take on the whole world than fight with our own inner demons.

In my years in chess, I have said the team has lost its morale and we look at technical; I have said the player is sick and more technical; I have said that loss has to do with a lack of concentration, bad habits and yet more technical....

We have come from defeat to defeat from lack of preparation and training and we will not do a proper postmortem. We keep hitting that ceiling and bouncing back and we refuse to look the other aspects of chess besides technical.

Why is that?

Actually change is not easy. There are a lot of things we must know to effect change successfully. Change management is a science.

And it must start with us saying, we have a problem. Then we look at how do we change, what needs changing? For until then we will keep doing the same things and hoping for a different result.

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