Effective Change

We face a number of problems in our country and in our organizations. One of them is that we are largely ineffective at the work of bettering. We try to better this or that by incentivizing change, as though changing for the better were something that needed further incentive than its natural outcome. Another way we try to better our organizations or country is by mandate. We mandate as a method of bettering the behavior or workings of people or organizations.

This doesn't work.

There are many incredible organizations and people that give us hope that more could work in the same ways, but not everyone is ready. If an organization isn't ready to work efficiently then ensuring efficiency will not fix it. Paperwork is not an effective motivator. Betterment cannot be forced, but it can be planned for and supported.