A wise man once told me many years ago that if you want to enact change, a series of small, subtle, adjustments is far easier for people to swallow than a massive or sweeping transformation. "To avoid panic and fear," he advised me, "keep the modifications and the rhetoric to a minimum. You can still get to where you want to go; you just make slower turns so as not to upset the apple cart." While he was referring to the corporate world and a series of mandates that would affect me and virtually every employee of the company we worked for, his words also appear to ring true to societal change as well.During our conversation, he also cautioned that any alteration or adjustment, no matter how small, is like a "V" in the road...a fork, if you will. At the point of origin where the choice of roads begins, you find yourself in one location discovering a safety net in the ability to touch both roads. But, as you travel down the road to the left, the road to...(Read Full Post)