All of us might have heard the following story:
In the pious waters of Yamuna lived 'Kalia' the venomous snake, who had poisined the holy water so much as to render it unusable. The gwallas & gopis, sad at the suffering had none to plead to. By a stroke of luck a ball fell in the river, Lord Krishna went to fetch the ball & ended up subduing Kalia who was happy to get 'Mukti' from a curse.
Fantastic story, heard zillions of times, but needs to be understood again. Consider this:
Kalia was a pious being in his previous birth, who due to some of his bad actions got a curse & was entrapped as the bad soul (demonic snake) in a good world (the river, its banks & the villages). Kalia did not like being bad, but had to be so to maintain the status quo (his position of comfort). He knew he was in a mess & wanted to get out of it (change the status quo) but was prevented from the fear of being devoured by 'Garuda' if he came out of his safe environs (fear of competition). Hence he continued to rule the waters (resisted change) ruining his reputation as well as the well being of his environment (his organisation - the village)
This continued till the advent of Lord Krishna (the change) Garud did not eat up Kalia, who in turn got the much sought for 'Mukti', the river became free of poison, children could play, villagers were happy & a 'Good for all' ensued ever after.
Read through the lines then, 'CHANGE MANAGEMENT' needs to be a recurrent theme of every organisation.
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