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===The [[Graeber paradox]]=== | ===The [[Graeber paradox]]=== | ||
Call | This is the dilemma of modern professional work. Call it the [[Graeber paradox]].<ref>So named for {{author|David Graeber}}’s book, [[Bullshit Jobs: A Theory]], which once almost got me fired. Long story.</ref> We, being but ants on the planet’s face are, at some stage, doomed. Our mortal frailty will get us in the end. we are damned if we do, damned if we don’t, and since damnation lies at a point up the road, which ever path it takes, we choose not to move forward at all. ''Let damnation at least make the effort to come and find me, rather than seeking it out''. | ||
===Why change management is so hard=== | |||
This is a powerful, deep psychological inhibitor to pursuing change. If you are trying to bring about change, you need to deal with it. | |||
Here are some thoughts: | |||
*'''The work is never done''': It is a reductionist canard of the first order that once routine work is automated there will be nothing left to do. If you sort out routine work, ''it makes the machine go faster''. A machine that goes faster finds new things to do. As long as you are a resourceful, flexible person, the more bureaucratic pain you eliminate, the sooner you can get to interesting, knotty problems that need solving. ''Solving interesting knotty problems is fun''. | *'''The work is never done''': It is a reductionist canard of the first order that once routine work is automated there will be nothing left to do. If you sort out routine work, ''it makes the machine go faster''. A machine that goes faster finds new things to do. As long as you are a resourceful, flexible person, the more bureaucratic pain you eliminate, the sooner you can get to interesting, knotty problems that need solving. ''Solving interesting knotty problems is fun''. | ||
*People who can solve bureaucratic pain and make the machine run faster are like ''gold-dust''. | *People who can solve bureaucratic pain and make the machine run faster are like ''gold-dust''. | ||