dealing with change

  • The New Coke Effect

    ·

    One of the world’s most famous failures was “New Coke”. It is often trotted out as a reason people don’t like change: a colossal mistake in which the Coca-Cola Company dared to change their signature drink. As the story goes, the change was a failure and the world went back to normal. Except that isn’t…

    Read More

  • Don’t like change? You’ll love this!

    ·

    [I have written several pieces on change and encourage you to find links to them here.] There is something startling about a Christian that doesn’t like change.  We have come to see our faith traditions as monolithic and unchanging.  We look back through our lives and we such static behavior coming from Christianity.  We are used to…

    Read More

  • We actually like change

    ·

    It is funny when you are in an organization that hears the word “change” and breaks out into metaphorical hives, because the response is predictable.  We hear the same chorus: “Why change anything, we’re doing fine.” “We’re not the church of what’s happenin’ now.”* “There’s so much change in the world, I want church to…

    Read More