Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Change

My small group started a new book this week. We're reading Surprise Me, by Terry Esau. I just started with Day One today and I really liked what he wrote about change:

He's one of those people who will do something really new, really groundbreaking one day. I encourage people like that to do it, just flat out do it. 'Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.' I don't know who said that, but I love this phrase and think it's packed with a lot of truth. We're always trying to ease our way into change - same our way into something different. We try to do it in such a way that nobody feels uncomfortable. Long ago I decided that in my music business, if everybody feels good and safe with the music, then it must be weak, impotent, passionless. And it probably won't achieve its purpose. I call this the S&T factor. If there's not at least one person who Squirms and Twitches when they hear it, then toss it out, it's dead.


Word.