In this concluding part of the “Transformation Journey Series”, I will start by summarizing the earlier treatise. Series
1: “Everything start from form and form is everything. From
genetic transformation to business transformation or digital transformation to
mention but few, ‘form’ is at the core”. Series 2: “We function in teams
whether formally or informally. Of deformity or deformation,
realizing that each member in a team has unique attributes and something to
offer helps the leader foster cohesion, harmony, and dedicated focus where
engagement ratio tends towards 1:1”. Series 3: “Without information about
the initial form and other possibilities, there can never be transformation.
Undeniably, quality information is crucial for decision making in a change
management process”. Series 4: “Reformations and Transformations are not the
same thing. Reformations are concerned with changing the means systems employ
to pursue their objectives. Transformations involve changes in the objectives
they pursue”. Series 5: Transformation is about personalities. People makes
things happen!
People are the most crucial element
of any transformation journey. As the adage goes, “People can be divided into
three groups – those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and
those who wonder what happened”. There is contention around who coined the adage,
but it holds true any time any day. People moves from one group to another
depending on interest, context, or aspiration. As Prof. Tony O’Driscoll’s research
with Brightline emphasizes, successful organization transformation requires an
empathic, ‘people-centered’ approach to change that nurtures a culture of
aspiration, alignment, autonomy, and accountability. Of all people, you are the most
important as change agent. Your ability to transform your environment and
influence those around you positively depends on your level of personal transformation.
Being a change agent starts with personal change or transformation. A changed
personality is one who has been transformed by the renewal of his or her mind. According
to Doe Zantamata, “Change isn’t just one thing, just one time, just one big
revelation. Change occurs in stages, and phases, which each add depth, color,
character, and create a multi-dimensional, multi-faceted you”. Allan Rufus in “The Master’s
Sacred Knowledge” writes about a wise old master’s advise to an insecure young
man on personal transformation. “It is like a caterpillar that lives on the ground
and foliage of plants, it just exists there eating and eating, then one day it
starts to spin silk around itself in a cocoon where it starts to go through the
metamorphosis of transformation, and when it has fully developed, it finds its
way out of that space and its life becomes different. It has different imprint,
different function, and different purpose. Instead of just eating leaves as
caterpillar that seems like destruction, it now pollinates the plants to help
bring about new life, and food for other living creatures, including us, man!
So, the humble butterfly has a worthy cause, and a worthy life, not only
looking brittle and beautiful, but fulfilling a Divine purpose for continuation
of life on the Divine Planet called Earth”.
In digitally yours, I have made strong case for digital readiness, personal development and self leadership. The world evolves in transitions constantly transforming from one era to another. The birth of human race began with co-existence with nature - a primitive era typical of hunting society. The next era birthed an agrarian society where irrigation techniques sprouted up and human settlements evolved. Invention of steam engines and locomotives led to the industrial society and beginning of industrialization and mass production. We are now at the matured phase of information society birthed by advents in semi-conductor technology and computer systems. Futuristic transformation will
move the world away from the ‘barrel of oil’ to the new order of super-humans enamored with 'barrel of data'. Will intending Super-smart society be a re-enactment of biblical ‘tower of babel’ or positive aspiration seamlessly achieved?
