Darwin200

We hear lots of buzz words today - in business, the economy and for the workforce.

Words like re-inventing, paradigm shift, thinking out-of-the-box, re-skilling, change management, resilience, mind-set change, transformation, catalyze, innovate, revolutionize….the list is endless – but all eluding to the importance of change and adapting for the better.

Which leads me to one of my favourite quotations - from Charles Darwin, 1809-1882 :

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist and author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, the book on the theory of evolution by natural selection that shook the scientific world.

Darwin200 is centered on his 200th birthday in February 2009 as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in November 1859.

It will be a platform for countries and scientific communities all over the world to celebrate how the impact of his ideas, about evolution and his approach to the understanding of the natural world as an outstanding scientist, continues to have on our lives today.

Ideas that continue to have relevance and resonance for us in this constantly changing and rapidly evolving world we live in.

Many organizations I have been asked to work with are often grappling with either coping with and/or sustaining change management.

If you have a similar dilemma and need a solution or intervention, let me know and I can share with you why so many change initiatives fail and how not to go down that same path.

Change is the only constant these days.

Question is are you or your organization ready to face up to it?