Change is never easy, especially if what you’re doing now seems to work just fine.
"Changing yourself in the job, especially if you’re doing well, is one of the hardest things to do," said Andrew Liveris, former CEO and chairman of Dow Chemical.
This applies to both organizations and individuals. When Liveris took over Dow in 2004, he was tempted to follow his predecessors’ footsteps. “We were making a lot of money and so the people in Dow... I won’t say got complacent, but knew what success looked like.” But success is fragile, he discovered, especially for a formerly innovative company that had grown a large bureaucracy that often hindered innovation. As strange as it sounded then, Dow had to disrupt itself, or risk losing to a smaller, faster rival. That starts with a leader who is always in learning mode.
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