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 Yet we live in a time of change. We must change or die. We select our leaders to drive change.
-Thus, management has derived some kind of prime directive: “I must change. For it is what leaders do. But whatever change I make, I must make it, without —” well, er — it is difficult to put this any way other than bluntly, readers — “... whatever change I make, I must make it without ''changing'' anything”.
+Thus, management has derived some kind of prime directive: “I must change. For it is what leaders do. But whatever change I make, I must make it, without ...” — it is difficult to put this any way other than bluntly, readers — “... whatever change I make, I must make it without ''changing'' anything”.
 And so it comes to pass: no [[Outsourcing|outsourcing program]], no employee survey, no cost challenge, no well-being outreach, no human resources initiative in history has been designed to prove that, for example, the executive team are a bunch of useless, glad-handing dilettantes, nor that the echelons of upper management, though in place for decades, have not made an ounce of positive difference; that the problem with our stars is not the cost of front-line staff but the sediment of useless management pressing down upon them, hindering their reactions to the changing needs and desires of their local markets.