Thoughts on Change

Some poems and quips about issues, possibilities, perceptions and choices.

by Scott Simmerman, Ph.D. Managing Partner of Performance Management Company

Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly

PART ONEof three

The illustration, Square Wheels One, is our representation of how things really work. You can find a lot more about this in my article called Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly --you can download free from my website. It expands on this notion greatly (www.performancemanagementcompany.com/category_s/105.htm).

The main theme is that caterpillars can fly, eventually, but they need to lighten up!.

For this caterpillar and butterfly framework on managing and leading change, we start with a joke and then bridge to the theme of change, resistance, perceptions and possibilities. You can find the joke and the context in the article.

For operational purposes, you might view this as operating more like this:

The cartoon, images, poems and other materials share some of our thinking about change.

There are real themes of inevitability, change and potential. But one must also

beware of the birds, which love caterpillars as food to grow their own young!

Competition is like that, you know…

Thoughts on Change

For the past 30 years, we have supported trainers and consultants with simple and effective toolkits for managing and leading change and for innovation and team building.

For the FUN of It!Scott Simmerman, Ph.D. Managing Partner of Performance Management Company

Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly

I hope that you liked our

and our series of poems, quips and other metaphors around the theme of

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