The Challenge of Changing

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The Challenge of Changing

• Harold V. Langlois

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Two Questions Facing Us Each Day

• What is the value of my available choices?
• How much does each choice cost?

Moment-to-Moment Living is a algorithm problem of
investment and returns we want the most return
for the least investment.
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Winners and Losers

• Those that accurately estimate the costs and the
  long-term benefits of choices will be more
  efficient than those that dontand in the long
  term these are the winners.
• Read Montague - 2007

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Three Basic Principles of the Brain

• Recharge or die
• Be as efficient as possible
• Conserve energy and run cool

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The Differences Between

• Thinking
• Probability
• Anxiety driven by fear of being wrong
• Discomforting
• Desire to learn
• Use conflict as a source of creative energy
• Emotions are the glue that hold the event
  together
• Based on change
• Leadership Challenge

• Knowing
• Certainty
• Confirmation driven by the need to be right
• Comforting
• Desire to control
• Eliminate conflict to avoid distraction
• Avoid emotional entanglements
• Based on repetition
• Management challenge

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Decision MakingProbability of Getting It Right
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The Pre- and Post-Change Map
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Summary

• Perceptions of change influence behavioral
  choices
• Past experiences create a sense of meaning which
  has a significant impact on the way that we
  perceive the future