<commit_before>---
layout: post
title: "... what does that say about me"
author: "<NAME>"
date: 2016-02-14 19:21:09
tags:
 - Agile
 - Lean
 - Life of a consultant
---

I more and more realize that what I'm doing is change management. It's involved in more or less every gig I get and I feel that I know just a fraction about what I need to handle it. 

However I have three thoughts that have helped me immensely in how to approach change. They calm me down around the nervosity I've felt about "changing people", since both have to do with changing perspective, putting me on the other side. 

In this post I wanted to share these ideas, that are not mine mind you, and maybe you will feel a bit calmer too. 

<a name='more'></a>
I've [blogged](http://www.marcusoft.net/2012/09/applying-switch-framework-to-meetings.html) [many](http://www.marcusoft.net/2012/09/applying-switch-framework-to-meetings_6992.html) [times about](http://www.marcusoft.net/2015/10/changes-reasons-or-the-opposite.html) [Switch](http://heathbrothers.com/books/switch/) which is the best book I've read on the topic. 

# Change! or Change?

There's a sentence in the beginning of the book that I really think is important to approach change in a more humble, gentle and (hopefully) hence more productive way: 
<commit_msg>New post: What does that say<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: "... what does that say about me"
author: "<NAME>"
date: 2016-02-14 19:21:09
tags:
 - Agile
 - Lean
 - Life of a consultant
---

I more and more realize that what I'm doing is about change management. It's involved in more or less every gig I get and I feel that I know just a fraction about what I need to handle it. 

However I have three thoughts that have helped me immensely in how to approach change. They calm me down around the nervosity I've felt about "changing people", since both have to do with changing perspective, putting me on the other side. 

In this post I wanted to share these ideas, that are not mine mind you, and maybe you will feel a bit calmer too. 

<a name='more'></a>
I've [blogged](http://www.marcusoft.net/2012/09/applying-switch-framework-to-meetings.html) [many](http://www.marcusoft.net/2012/09/applying-switch-framework-to-meetings_6992.html) [times about](http://www.marcusoft.net/2015/10/changes-reasons-or-the-opposite.html) [Switch](http://heathbrothers.com/books/switch/) which is the best book I've read on the topic. 

# Change! or Change?

There's a sentence in the beginning of the book that I really think is important to approach change in a more humble, gentle and (hopefully) hence more productive way: 

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