Change = Adaptability = Evolution

Before you give a rough and direct answer to this question, I invite you to have five minutes of reflection reading the article below.

I start with a quote from Einstein that said, as we know, "Everything is relative"!

Everything is changing, each of us (more or less) realize that we, first of all, the people next to us, the situations, the context, the activities and things evolve in one way or another. Sometimes better, sometimes less well, but the change exists. How many times do we consciously ask ourselves whether we can go along with others on the same path of change?

Let us imagine that we are employees of a small company with rent a car services, we are a few people in the company, communication is fluid, fluent, we understand each other very well and we have open doors to each other, including those who lead us, they listen and give us quick feedback. But, maybe sometimes we want to know more clearly what to do in one situation or another, although if we are innovative, it can be a good thing because we are creative, we like to contribute and we can quickly acknowledge the contribution.

But as the time goes by, the company grows slowly, the team gets new members, and our colleagues and bosses are more suited to those who feel the need to have more structure! But what about us, the creative ones? And in the case of multinationals, things are quite different, the procedures are in power, there are various activities, departments, the relationships between them, and the activity is made for profit (the end goal of any commercial business).

In these cases, employers and employees can follow the same path of change? And if so, how easy is it? Change is not easy even for the most adaptable among us.

In small firms, change is easier for people to embrace, if management is good there, there is team spirit, and we have the feeling that we all work for the same thing. In large / multinational firms, because of the many human typologies that are at different hierarchical levels, this feeling is diluted; here, HR departments or those specialized in internal communication intervene.

Einstein also said: Once you stop learning you start dying! And 'learning' means, from my point of view, also to learn to embrace change and to see the positive aspects permanently, because the change leads to better versions of each of us, if we can see the difficulties as opportunities to evolve positively.

And Charles Darwin said: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Let's ask ourselves: how adaptable we are? Does adaptability along with our desire for improvement, evolution, and continuous training can help us throughout our changing lives?