Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.

Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

Faith is the soul's adventure.

Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a key, we have forgotten the importance of fallow time and winter and rests in music. We have abandoned a whole system of dealing with the neutral zone through ritual, and we have tried to deal with personal change as though it were a matter of some kind of readjustment.

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.