Theodore Roosevelt is oft quoted as saying “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” Never a truer word spoken when applied to technology and new applications.

As a culture, we have evolved from Teddy’s time, to wanting everything to be easy and fast. Our attention is lost on anything that throws any kind of hurdle our way, because there are ten other items that are easier which will rise up and capture our attention. This goes for relationships as well. We want a profile, a summary, and quick references on everyone we meet, rather than taking time to get to know someone. If we could we would fast forward through introductions to get to the “best part of the show”.

So it isn’t surprising that embracing change is a big “Owie” in most organizations. What can be done about it – well, to start, take smaller bites. Or Bytes. Change taken in small “baby” steps is equivalent to Quick and Easy. And like the babies we are emulating, we are gonna fall and go boom every once in awhile.