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Re: Future First Championship News
In a program designed to change the culture, create exciting new innovations, and challenge status quo standards of thinking and leadership, change is a good thing - not a threat to everything held dear. Granted, change is hard but, it does create opportunities for identifying strengths and weaknesses within the structures and frameworks involved.
My firm belief has always been that there is more room for achieving excellence and for more recognition of excellence achieved. As it is, we are setting limits when there is opportunity to lift them, raising the bar and strengthening the challenge. FIRSTers never shy away from agonizing analysis (love it, Carolyn Grace), discomfort, new ways of growing the programs, and having fun. Never. This is 2015. What new challenges will we be facing in 2020, I wonder.
As an opinion, I also think the way this announcement came about, and the timing of it, has been a strategic part of HQ's plan for rolling this change out. Strategic is the key word. It gives everyone ample time to work through the stages of acceptance/rejection in time for productive discussions in STL across all of the programs impacted.
Jane
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