The management of change, or as it is often called, “change management” has become hugely popular over recent years. Many management consultants have set up offering advice in this area. Significant areas of business, and especially the public sector, have spent considerable sums of money undertaking change programmes. Business schools, and other organisations, have conducted research into this area. It is also rare for business magazines not to have a mention of this topic.

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I was recently speaking to a group of top professionals and my speech was entitled ‘Lessons from a dinosaur’. Even though I am a touch past the first flush of youth, this was less about my experience and age!

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It is interesting to notice what is going on around us, albeit so often we are absorbed in our own thoughts. Or thoughts that someone else has triggered.

As you can see in the picture, there is an empty path, wonderfully dappled with the early evening sunlight. A light that has is ‘heavier’ and has more depth than the strong sunlight at noon.

For once my mind was a little less busy and I noticed just how the light was playing between the trees. How the freshly cut grass was standing upright, and looking lush after a few days of rain. It was one of those moments when all else seemed to have less importance, one of

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