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Change management required you to identify the “burning platform” early in the process. Where does this “spark” come from? Within you? Or from the environment?

In real life, you will have a mix of both sources. The only question remains, what is the ratio?

• If 80% of the urgency is from the environment, you are “reacting.”
• If 80% of the urgency is from within, you are being “proactive.”

In both cases, you are likely to be very stressed. You can fight fires most of the time, or be so driven that you don’t stop to smell the roses, and hope to remain stress free. High stress and low quality of life go together.

Thus, another metric becomes the number of change efforts in progress at any time. How many plates can you keep spinning at any time? Reduce the quantity, concentrate your energies. Delegate what you can.