We are used to celebrating the major change efforts
sometimes a bit prematurely. You have
all seen the movies, where the hero saves the person from the monster’s captivity
and they start celebration and embracing right there and then instead of
completing the getaway, and then, the monster wakes up and beats up the hero a
bit more before it is actually over.
While celebrating is good, any suggestion of the project
completion is a bad idea, if it is made prematurely. Some changes take quite a bit of time to sink
into the old culture. New approaches are
always quite delicate and subject to relapse.
After an early celebration, we
feel as if the war is over and the troops are sent home. Exhausted troops let themselves believe that
the victory is at hand and once home, they will be quite reluctant to return to
the front line. Soon after this, the
change comes to halt and old traditions tiptoe their way back in.
EL
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