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The Bull, The China Shop, and I
This podcast is for everybody ready to rock the boat and instigate. Some will call it a rant; I am calling it an overdue cleansing of what is swept under the rug to make room for better, bolder, and for braver. It is all about the uncomfortable topics and challenges in the business world that we all know about but doesn't want to talk about, or do we? What we will do on this show is take uncomfortable truths apart and discuss the direction we could take going forward to approach these truths for action and impact. My aim for this podcast is to raise voices, start actions, and a movement. Let's open pandora's box and turn what comes out of it into goodness.
The Bull, The China Shop, and I
The Bull, The China Shop, and Change
The Bull, The China Shop, and Change
Don’t rock the boat
Don’t burn bridges
Tread carefully, tread lightly
Anyone recognize this type of advice?
Who has been given that type of advice?
And more importantly, how do you feel about this type of “advice”?
For me this type of advice is a trigger point.
A trigger point to ask why and what is happening here.
Hello everyone!
I am Isabella Zaczek and I am an instigator at heart.
And what I want to do today is
Explore the uncomfortable topics and actions around change and the steps we must take to enable change, accept, and implement it.
Expel the myths about change
Extract the essence of change and its success
Without any further ado, let’s see whether the talk holds what the title promises.
The Bull, the China Shop and change.
What is a better way than to start with some historic instigators:
So, I picked the following 3 instigators – anyone recognize them?
MLK – fighting for basic equality and civil rights
Galileo – going against the Catholic church and thus the world with science
The Women Suffragette Movement – standing up for female empowerment and rights
Challenging the status quo - Change processes that have still not been fully implemented centuries and decades later
And are more relevant than ever
So, what do they all have in common…they rocked the boat, they burnt bridges, they did not tread lightly
Going against deeply rooted beliefs, facing mockery, resentment, even death
Here is the very interesting fact about change, I believe, you do want to change for betterment, equality, advancement, and at the same time you must bear with – rejection, resentment and potentially every negative reaction there is – but what if you don’t start change?
Here is an article on Fortune I recently found about political reform:
Both Gehl and Thiry were able to report some recent successes in their reform efforts. But progress is slow and uncertain. Why? Because politicians from both parties, who have benefitted from the existing dysfunctional system, tend to oppose change. They argue business leaders should be champions of the reform.
Granted this is on political reform BUT it is change, nonetheless.
Extract the key message – progress is slow and uncertain and there are those who benefit from existing dysfunctional systems.
Who is your champion and who is your challenger - who has benefitted from no change.
How do we expect change to happen when we do not go where it hurts – it takes a special kind of person to be comfortable with the dark side.
But how many of us are truly and honestly comfortable with the dark, how many of us really believe that it is always darkest before the dawn.
Some years ago, I coined the following quote:
Our uncomfortable truths are the foundation of our permanent (r)evolution!
How do we expect change to be acknowledged, understood, and accepted if we are not willing to rock the boat, lift the rocks, and guide humans through the storm?
Given some personal tragedies over the past 2 years I turned t
