On Vacation

Between wrapping up my summer internship, and then leaving on vacation (and having spotty internet and time), this rambler is taking a bit of a blogging break. Will kick it back in gear come next week when I'm back in Seattle and back to routine.

A Self That Goes On Changing

One Virginia Woolf quote is that "A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living."

I've been thinking a lot about change these days from a few different perspectives.

As a student, I'm gearing up for an interesting academic quarter. I've started to prepare for a course titled "Information and the Management of Change" which I'm quite looking forward to. The two main readings for the course are Galavan et al.'s Strategy, Innovation and Change and Beer & Nohria's Breaking the Code of Change. While I've only read the introductions for both, they have already caught my interest, because change management is not an easy or simply beast to tackle. I hope they both fulfill their promises of being spaces where theory and real-world practice have met and been synthesized. On page one of Galavan, the editors claim that their contributors are people who"breathe life into strategy through the connection of innovation, leadership, and change management". Sounds good to me.

In professional and personal news... well, they're going to stay professional and personal. But on a general level, there have been some interesting changes that have happened, and some changes that need to be made. There are some changes I'm looking forward to, and others that are not so simple. Sometimes the most needed changes are the ones we resist implementing the most.

Wish I were blogging from PAX, but that was not to be this year. That's one thing I plan on changing - I'm buying my pass as soon as they go on sale next year!