Clearing out the cruft that surrounds your reactions and responses to conflicts in your life, can take at least a lifetime.
Clearing out the cruft that surrounds your employee’s reactions and responses to conflicts in your organization can take at least 20 years.
Clearing out the cruft that surrounds your country, community, and neighborhood’s reactions and responses to conflicts in your country, community, and neighborhood, can take at least 50 years.
But that doesn’t mean that Ghandi, Candace Lightner, or even your cousin can’t change—or even be the source of effective change in others.
It means that the change isn’t going to happen nearly as fast as you think that it should.
It just means that when the change finally comes the impacts will appear slowly at first, and then all at once.
It also means that attending one training, reading one blog post, or implementing the ideas from one book, is not going to ever replace the hard work of working on yourself first, and everyone else second.
