Change is hard. Starting something new and seeing it through to completeion is hard.
We owe it to people to prepare them for tough times. In their new book ‘Switch”, Chip and Dan Heath suggest that by preparing people you lead for the inevitable bump in the road and frustrations that wil come, could lead to greater success in the long run. Whenever IDEO starts a new project they always review the graph below to help people understand the process they are about to embark on.
The Heath brothers argue that failure and problems are almost always warning signs for success. They refer to this downturn as the ‘Valley of Insight’. By building in a tolerance for failure in your organization, you can maintain morale and continue pressing on toward confidence in the outcome of your project.
Questions for you full-time Christian workers out there: Is this thought helpful? How could it change the way you lead?
