Changing habits is not an overnite sensation. Habits are results of consistent following a guided pattern of doing things. Procedures are laid like food served on tray. You take it in the most effective way you think best and then repeated doing the same thing over and over again to make it perfect. The more frequent it is done, the better you are and later, the guidelines can be put aside. A new culture has been developed. Things will happen naturally.
Question is, how long can you developed this process, from designing habits to creating a culture? A day? A week? A month? 10 years maximum for big corporation! (Motorola). I have got some feedbacks from people I work with before...5 years down the road I received a phone call, telling me they are getting the fruits of their investments. That the patience that you have to bear in developing cultures NOT an overnite sensation. Performance will see yo-yo because of the unlearn and relearn and you can see spotty improvement here and there. These will create internal competition among units or teams to make theirs the best! This is healthy. Over time, you will notice gradual improvements.
The trouble with people now is that you have a period of 3 years to make the difference! Waiting is no longer an exception. Hunting and fishing should be fast! Use granades use the tiger trawler's net! It will be efficient but not good in the long run. The hunters and the fishermen will surely have a bleak future. Maybe exhausted. Reasons being, competition, staying alive. Can't they feel that the ground is shaking? Some people are often blinded by what they are after.
Talking about burning platform, the same people have been sitting on hot plates ensuring deliverables are coming over and over again. Here we go again, the phrase they used to say! Well, it a job, anyway, some people come and go but others are here to stay! The veterans have seen the changed of the guards and how those left behind are cleaning the shits they have left behind! No need to mention here, just ask the veterans!
No matter what, you have got to believe in what you are doing. Let's try to understand how some tasks are to be delivered. The right culture will give the desired numbers, consistently and rising as processes matures. Rangers and infantry have the same vision but they mission and tasks differs.
So change agents, stand strong and face the world, you know your craft well and hope that sometime and somewhere down the road you might be receiving a phone call but definitely not tomorrow!
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