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Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

What do I really want to do? I don't know what I want to do. What are some things I can figure out that might lead me? Have I thought in my head and built some scenario planning or I'm like, what's going to happen if we do it? Am I going to regret it? Regret's an awful thing or we're always going to have it.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

What do I really want to do? I don't know what I want to do. What are some things I can figure out that might lead me? Have I thought in my head and built some scenario planning or I'm like, what's going to happen if we do it? Am I going to regret it? Regret's an awful thing or we're always going to have it.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

But I think you can minimize it if you've got a little bit of thoughtfulness around why you're leaping to change something. Is it really just today I'm having a bad day and I had a bad interaction? Or is it, you know what, it's been building up for a long time and I shouldn't be here. I need to go find a place in my tribe.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

But I think you can minimize it if you've got a little bit of thoughtfulness around why you're leaping to change something. Is it really just today I'm having a bad day and I had a bad interaction? Or is it, you know what, it's been building up for a long time and I shouldn't be here. I need to go find a place in my tribe.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

So I think, yeah, like a lot of those different components are really important for figuring out. Am I addicted to change or am I welcoming of it? And I'm using it at Yule to help me find a better place to rise.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

So I think, yeah, like a lot of those different components are really important for figuring out. Am I addicted to change or am I welcoming of it? And I'm using it at Yule to help me find a better place to rise.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

Yeah, and I think, so there's, this is, that's a great question again, Vin, and I did some soul searching in that I have worked in a number of, both the mainstream and on cases of change in a variety of different countries and industries or divisions. Potentially, there's two things I would want to start off with, and there's some misconception, some common misconceptions I see about change.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

Yeah, and I think, so there's, this is, that's a great question again, Vin, and I did some soul searching in that I have worked in a number of, both the mainstream and on cases of change in a variety of different countries and industries or divisions. Potentially, there's two things I would want to start off with, and there's some misconception, some common misconceptions I see about change.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

And again, we're talking like in an organizational or a business or even a personal professional way. And the first one is we have these people and I support them. Embrace change. Embrace change. It's the same thing as like you're embracing change for success. And then how are we defining success? Is it simply a bunch of key performance indicators and some sales bigger than revenue?

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

And again, we're talking like in an organizational or a business or even a personal professional way. And the first one is we have these people and I support them. Embrace change. Embrace change. It's the same thing as like you're embracing change for success. And then how are we defining success? Is it simply a bunch of key performance indicators and some sales bigger than revenue?

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

Is it just keeping people? Is it launching ourselves into a brand new space to be wildly successful? Is it keeping the status quo? There's a whole variety of different ways to do it and embracing change to success is fine, but don't do it just for the sake of success. Because the true impact really comes when you are guiding, strategic, and focused change.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

Is it just keeping people? Is it launching ourselves into a brand new space to be wildly successful? Is it keeping the status quo? There's a whole variety of different ways to do it and embracing change to success is fine, but don't do it just for the sake of success. Because the true impact really comes when you are guiding, strategic, and focused change.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

And that's a whole different arena with a lot of complicated parameters. And you asked me about some specific examples. So I think I've got two, and I'm going to make them personal to me because change is personal. One example is going to be a bit of a surprise to people because they will have read, potentially, how traditional this country is. And this was Japan.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

And that's a whole different arena with a lot of complicated parameters. And you asked me about some specific examples. So I think I've got two, and I'm going to make them personal to me because change is personal. One example is going to be a bit of a surprise to people because they will have read, potentially, how traditional this country is. And this was Japan.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

So I lived in Japan, as I mentioned, for quite a long time. And then I worked with Japanese organizations or machines for an equally long period. And I found, yes, value and worth put on traditional practice. And that also varies across industry. And lo and behold, I also worked in a very traditional industry, lighting term. But from the outside, it does look like it's stuck.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

So I lived in Japan, as I mentioned, for quite a long time. And then I worked with Japanese organizations or machines for an equally long period. And I found, yes, value and worth put on traditional practice. And that also varies across industry. And lo and behold, I also worked in a very traditional industry, lighting term. But from the outside, it does look like it's stuck.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

Practices are the same. They move along. So when I was working for one of these big organizations, album that, yeah, there wasn't a lot of, there wasn't a lot of airtime given to, hey, why don't we try this? Or, hey, why don't we, why don't we consider something completely different? There was incremental change, change or introduction of new things.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

Practices are the same. They move along. So when I was working for one of these big organizations, album that, yeah, there wasn't a lot of, there wasn't a lot of airtime given to, hey, why don't we try this? Or, hey, why don't we, why don't we consider something completely different? There was incremental change, change or introduction of new things.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

And then luck would have it, I ended up traveling to a developing market with senior people from that city and looked around and just started noticing Don. And then thinking, hey, we could connect these Don to make something unique. And with a job in a life insurance company, we're in Brazil, we're seeing something that's a bit unique.

Chief Change Officer
#170 Colin Savage: Change Junkie on a Global Tour—Swapping Comfort for Chaos – Part One

And then luck would have it, I ended up traveling to a developing market with senior people from that city and looked around and just started noticing Don. And then thinking, hey, we could connect these Don to make something unique. And with a job in a life insurance company, we're in Brazil, we're seeing something that's a bit unique.