room for emotions
Change is an emotional time, no doubt about it. We’re grieving what we’re leaving behind and we don’t yet know if things will work out, and if so whether they’ll do so as intended.
Bottling up or even negating those emotions is like putting a lid on a pressure cooker: the steam WILL come out eventually. We can only hope for some warning signs and that no one is near when it happens.
Geysirs are nature’s pressure cookers. Strokkur, the original Geysir’s neighbour, will warn you with a bright turquoise hot water dome that rises - until the signature hot water fountain erupts.
In our (corporate) culture, we tend to label emotions as “irrational" and try to suppress them. They don’t go away, though, they’ll stay, hidden and out of sight. And like a geysir (or Strokkur in this case), there’s a very brief warning period (the water dome) before they erupt.
Emotions are human, and humans are not machines.
Accounting for emotions will make change actually healthier for all involved.