Era minha intenção escrever a continuação da Parte I avançando para mais uma nota retirada do artigo da HBR deste mês. Contudo, a minha leitura matinal de ontem parece-me perfeitamente adequada para servir de ligação ao tema da calibração da mudança:
"We begin with what happens to humans when the future is uncertain, as, for example, when it's not clear what the impact of the new initiative is going to be, or when it's not clear who's in charge or how long that person will be around for.
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We really don't like uncertainty.
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Fear and anxiety are different, in other words, because fear comes with an ending. ... But when our stress is not immediately related to an object, then there is nothing to remove in order to alleviate it. This is what's particularly pernicious about uncertainty, then: It is unbounded.
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But here's the rub: It's very hard to make safety signals for humans at work, precisely because change at work is so often unbounded.
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Beyond ulcers, another characteristic of our response to uncertainty is that we become less rational.
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Unbounded uncertaintywhich we can think of as the possibility of disruptive change coupled with the absence of any credible signal that things will return to normal-produces high levels of stress. At the same time, our need for an end to unpredictability leads us to attempt to latch on to anything that offers the promise of a return to certainty, however irrational those things may be."
Trechos retirados de "The Problem with Change" de Ashley Goodall.
