John Linton .......bring to mind the worst excesses of Abraham (This will hurt you much more than me) Lincoln and Chairman (I know what's best for all 500 million of you) Mao?
There are a lot of things to fill a day when the marketplaces in which you operate continue to go through continual changes over a sustained period of time. Most of the things present some degree of 'challenge' which is concomitant with most situations in commercial life. The human species is genetically 'programmed' to deal with continual change better than most/all other living entities on the planet which is why it has 'risen' to dominate all environments except extreme cold, extreme heat and deep water that exist in their various forms over the last 50,000 or so years. However, if you look at any changing environment a little more than cursorily you should see that some humans cope with change better than others and even some of the 'copers' eventually suffer from change exhaustion. From the limited amount that I can see think more than a few previously very 'coping' people in the Australian communications industry have reached the 'exhaustion' stage.
The most obvious example in 'modern history' were the actions of the lunatic Mao Tze Tung and his "cultural revolution" which consigned the nascent PRC into chaos, starvation and misery unequaled in the planets history and was responsible for an estimated up to 70 million deaths of the people he consigned to that living hell - conceived and carried out by one man who was clearly clinically insane and millions of very young psychopaths whom he influenced. Just one more example of humanity's greatest weakness. Apart from the forced actions of lunatics in leadership positions (think 'NBN2', Carbon Tax) the day to day actions of every aspect of human 'society' produces too many changes on too many occasions generated by people with too much power and too little knowledge using people with too little intelligence and too much self interest.
If Mao Zedong's "cultural revolution" is a 'modern' reminder that the human race has major flaws in its genetic make up then it is also a reminder that change, even possibly beneficial change, is not something that can be accomplished by decree nor can it be accomplished in short time frames....but that's only 5,000 years of human history demonstrating that is the case - without exception.....and who bothers to read, let alone study, history these days. Among a huge number of contenders for the prize for most stupid act of achieving a beneficial change in a relatively short time at the most horrendous price in terms of human life and least effect must go to the war between the States from 1860 to 1864 which ended in the deaths of 4% of the male population of the USA and destroyed a significant part of the country for three generations while achieving practically nothing that wouldn't have been achieved more humanely anyway in only a slightly longer time.
What has any of this got to do with mild business change within the Australian communications industry in the early 21st century? Well, it may not seem apposite but in its way it is destroying an increasing number of people's working lives for no good reason at all judging by the number of people losing jobs with very little chance of continuing their careers in the previously preferred direction and at their previously preferred remuneration levels. The 'NBN2' has eerie echoes of Mao's "cultural revolution" and Lincolns "civil war" (apart from the huge loss of life and immense infrastructure damage the "civil war" resulted in the most devastating continuing negative effect on the whole of the world to this day - the US armaments industry) in that silly, uninformed (and in Mao's case just plain insane) people make ill informed decisions that ruin unknown numbers of people's lives doing something in the most expensive way possible to achieve practically nothing - other than very bad things for the huge number of people crushed, one way or another, by their irrational decisions.
Then again - perhaps it's the weather.
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