Change or Die?

Fast Company's 2005 article Change or Die popped up on my radar screen today and I am thinking about the opening paragraph,

"What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life and death? Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid boss, or a slick motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing CEO. We're talking actual life or death now. Your own life or death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act? If you didn't, your time would end soon -- a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change really mattered? When it mattered most?"

The conclusion the article comes to... "Here are the odds, the scientifically studied odds: nine to one. That's nine to one against you." The rest of the article offers some BRILLIANT insight on why change is so difficult and some suggestions for starting to change. For me and for the students that I am working with, scaring us about the bottom line isn't going to change our behaviors, but framing the change will. And in the church, we have the ultimate man to frame our change around...Jesus.

John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."