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To ''want'' change is to believe things are, somehow, ''wrong'': that the organisation is sub-optimal, dysfunctional, elliptical or just ''out of whack''.  
To ''want'' change is to believe things are, somehow, ''wrong'': that the organisation is sub-optimal, dysfunctional, elliptical or just ''out of whack''.  


But those who lead organisations and can bring change are precisely the ones who have lived their best lives within, because of, and thanks to, the organisation as it presently is. ''Without'' it being changed.
But those who lead organisations and can bring change are precisely the ones who have lived their best lives within, because of, and thanks to, the organisation as it presently is. ''Without'' it being changed. These people, if they know what is good for them, ''do not really want change''.


The [[paradox]], therefore: those at the top are compelled to make change but, at the same time, ''have the most to lose'' ''from change''.  
The [[paradox]], therefore: those at the top are compelled to make change but, at the same time, ''have the most to lose'' ''from change''.