Misconceptions About Change

Heath and Heath (2010) book advises that everyone who want change in one-way or another, whether it is to change their behavior, change who their friends are, their society or an organization they are a part of, changes can be made. This paper will examines how people have ideas on how to change but to implement the change that is the difficult part of the process. Heath and Heath (2010) book suggests that if their advices are followed change will come about easily. This paper will lay out the criteria needed to execute change at any echelon and the reasons change is difficult. Think about this: For example in the military, when a mission presents itself, they have to plan, to prepare and to rehearse the plan repeatedly until they have mastered

This paper will explain these misconceptions, making the idea of change possible. When the rejection of change occurs, it is possible to blame people’s stubbornness, lack of vision as a reason behind the unwillingness to change. Heath et al. (2010) says that people are not the main reason for not accepting change but the type of change is the problem. In the book, it is writes that to change someone’s behavior you have to change that person’s situation. An example was used such that an alcoholic seeks to go to rehab, alcoholism being the behavior you have to help the person change. Finding a new environment will help the person go dry. That type of change is temporary but to achieve a long lasting change, the person’s heart and mind has to be change. This type of change has to tackle the emotional and rational side simultaneously which Heath et al (2010) call direct the rider and motivate the Elephant. Making the person understand that whatever made them to turn to alcohol can change and without alcohol, they can function better. Always going back to providing the person a better path and motivating them to do better making the change come by