MANAGING CHANGE

My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to The Christopher Peter Review.

There are few guarantees in life. Only that everything changes and we will have to adapt, manage, or succumb to that change. Some people want to be the drivers of change, while others do everything in their power to ensure that the change is vetted and tested before it is allowed to impact society.

I believe there are valid arguments for both sides of being an agent for change and being a supporter of tradition. Change for the sake of change can create negative externalities that the proponent of that change should have anticipated ahead of time and mitigated. At the same time, the prisoner of the moment may overlook the current externalities some may experience that need to be addressed.

This is why change must be managed or vetted to ensure that we can be effective, efficient, and consistent with our shared guiding values that make our society the best in the world and our economy the premier innovation machine and opportunity generator on earth. We must anticipate to the best of our abilities the costs, risks, and benefits before agreeing. Some effects you cannot reverse. And cost spent on failed endeavors are funds that could have been used on more beneficial endeavors.

In this podcast episode, I discuss some idea to facilitate change including how to improve sports talk shows, the one day coup, and new approaches companies are taking to manage their workforce as well as other recent current events. Please enjoy below.