The One Constant Any Of Us Can Count On Is Change

American corporations have awakened to the reality that they too, must change, in order to stay relevant, solvent, innovative, and trusted. Americans deserve an economy that allows each person to succeed through hard work and creativity and to lead a life of meaning and dignity. Businesses play a vital role in the economy by creating jobs, fostering innovation and providing essential goods and services. While each of our individual companies serves its own corporate purpose, we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders. Delivering value to our customers at a time when they need it the most. We will further the tradition of American companies leading the way in meeting or exceeding customer expectations. Investing in our employees. This starts with compensating them fairly and providing important benefits. It also includes supporting them through training and education that help develop new skills for a rapidly changing world. We foster diversity and inclusion, dignity and respect. Dealing fairly and ethically with our suppliers. We are dedicated to serving as good partners to the other companies, large and small, that help us meet our missions.

From a Window

Supporting the communities in which we work. We respect the people in our communities and protect the environment by embracing sustainable practices across our businesses. We are committed to transparency and effective engagement with shareholders. Each of our stakeholders is essential. We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country. The opening sentence, Americans deserve an economy that allows each person to succeed through hard work and creativity and to lead a life of meaning and dignity, in many ways says a lot about the state of affairs in America and throughout the world. Major employers are investing in their workers and communities because they know it is the only way to be successful over the long term. These modernized principles reflect the business community’s unwavering commitment to continue to push for an economy that serves all Americans. There are many facets to sustainability, sustainable enterprise, and human dignity. To attain a more humane, peaceful, just, and sustainable existence humanity must focus its attention on intentional innovation, courageous collaboration, and radical partnerships. Although many associate change with being a sudden and unexpected event, change is more often a process. Most people do not know when they or their loved ones will pass.

Day After Day

We do know death always brings about change. And eventually it will happen. The only things we do not know is when and how. In light of this, we should all be able to breathe in a little air of relief. If we come to terms with the inevitability of death, the hardest part is over. What we can then focus our attention on is the hard work of taking full responsibility for life, choosing to live it with a fervor and purpose. We are here on earth for a fixed amount of time. There is discomfort in not knowing how long we will be alive. However, there is certainty in knowing that the life we live in our physical form has limitations. Knowing this helps us grasp the fragility and preciousness of life. It also helps us focus our energies, love, and attention on the power of living. Death, while we may not know when or how it will occur, is a reality of living, and ideally this should be viewed as a normal life process.

Heroes Are Hard To Find

Often experiencing change is only as difficult as our minds want to make it. There are many responses to change. When we are accepting of change, we force ourselves to be innovative. Change requires us to think, act, and behave differently than we did before the change. When change feels imposed, we may push back on the change. When this happens, change can have a negative impact on individuals and organizations, yielding unintentional outcomes. More intentional outcomes result when we work to influence change with a sense of innovation and pragmatism. When individuals or organizations do not fully embrace the change or push back against the change this may yield a mindset of either protectionism or incrementalism. The individual and or organizations do only what they have to do to protect themselves until they willingly invest their energies into leading the change and perhaps misguide it. The one constant any of us can count on is change. When we put up our feet and sink down into the big cozy sofas of our daily lives, we can quickly become complacent and reluctant to change. As we all have experienced, however, change can strike exactly when we least want it to disrupt us. How we act in the face of change is what makes all the difference in whether the outcome will be positive or negative. The world is calling for each of us, whether already standing alert or still sunk deep into our sofas, to be the change we want to see in the world. Anything and everything about your life has a purpose. You evoke your purpose when and how you choose to be a part of change. Therein lies dignity. We live our life’s highest purpose when we freely and openly choose to be ourselves, ready for action, ready for change, ready for service. Living a life detached from the realities of change is counter to human needs for identity, love, connection, purpose, and growth. Life is about mixing it up in your zone of creative tension, utilizing your personality and skills to shape the world in a positive way. Anyone can look at their personal struggles or the woes of the world and play the role of a victim to undesired change. What you, I, and we need right now, however, is a world that is ready to roll up its sleeves, one that gets off the sofa and tells a world that is increasingly irrational that we need to recalibrate entrenched relationships, challenge convention, and redefine what it means to be human.