You know how every other leadership article is always about change, and how we need to evolve and do things differently to stay relevant and competitive. It always made perfect sense to me, and it seemed the right and logical thing to do. Of course you need to be able to change, evolve and adapt as effective leaders.

Well I never really took a moment trying to truly understand why it would be so difficult for others to make that change, to adopt to new things and to evolve. I never really tried to put myself in the shoes of others who couldn’t seem to make that change.

We’ve recently been experiencing a change within the leadership team of our hotel, and everyone I reported to before moved on to do other things. New leaders arrived and brought with them new visions and new beliefs, and new ways of doing things.

Ways of thinking and doing things that were introduced before by my previous leaders, were suddenly relics of the past and not relevant anymore. Only that I’ve been working for this hotel now for a couple of years, and started to support and identify myself with those ways of thinking that were still so true and right just a moment ago.

Trust me change can be everything but easy. Letting go of something that you believed to be right is not simple, and it takes strength and commitment to stay agile.

My advise is to always keep an open mind and try new things out before dismissing them. If you want to stay relevant, and if you want your business to remain competitive, you’ll need to be able to push yourself out of your comfort zone, and even into your pain zone from time to time, to take risks and try something new.

You need to keep moving and accept some missteps along the way when trying new things, but if you stand still trying to hold on to the past, your downfall will follow.

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