This week's lesson was on Drivers of Change and Change Management & Change Leadership. I thought this would be an interesting session as I felt that change is something that is very close to our heart. The world is changing all the time and we're adapting to changes almost all the time.
We started off the lesson with the topic on Drivers of Change; the factors that caused change to happen. There are many different drivers of change. Whether is it caused by the environment, globalization, ideological innovation and so on. Ideological Innovation, it came to me really fresh as usually, when we mention drivers of change, the only few things that would pop out in my mind are mainly environment, technology and globalization. An example that was brought up by prof was communism. I feel that many a times, just a simple idea can change a whole system of something or the way people react to a certain issue. For instance, in the past, it is said that women are to stay at home to take care of the children and take care of the house. The mentality has been like this since decades ago. This is because people feel that women were more inferior creatures and that they are not as capable as men. However, we see that in today's society, there's a change in the thinking. We see that many women are in the workforce and even holding high positions. This change is thinking that women are not as inferior compared to the men has caused a drastic change in how people look at women.
Also, talking about drivers of change, I agree with what reading 2 has stated. "The two most significant drivers of change in the world today are globalization and technological innovation. Both factors of growth are, in fact, the basis for a new division of labor between countries and firms that has emerged during the last few decades." Change would bring about growth to a country. It allows a country to remain competitive in today’s society. I feel that technology plays an important role in causing change. Looking back at how the world has changed these years due to the advancement of technology, I feel that it’s one of the main drivers of change.
Then we move on to Change Management and Change Leadership. We see the difference in the industries where it moved from a ‘hands-on’ industry to a knowledge economy. We are living in a modern world where we need continuous monitoring and renewal. This is very applicable to us as we’re living in a globalised world where countries are competing economically with one another. “Be the change you want to see in the world”- Mahatma Gandhi. I agree with this statement, as I feel that we cannot conform to what the society does. In this way, we won’t be able to out do the rest. We have to be the one who cause the change, the one that came up with a new trend for instance, to be able to stay competitive.
Prof introduced 3 ways to cope with change: Make it happen; be proactive, Respond when it happens and Be surprised when it happens; blurr. I feel strongly like what prof says, that is to respond when it happens, and that is to embrace change. If we don’t respond to it, we will be left behind. Which also means that it’ll affect our economic status.
Overall, I felt that today’s lesson was really interesting and that the topic discussed was really what we are encounter. The presentation was also fresh especially the one on disease as it came to me fresh, knowing that disease is a key driver of change.
Class rating: 8.5/10
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