Change begins with yourself
Across the early change episodes and the EMBA conversations, guests say personal change is the hard part. What matters is the choice you make in how you respond. Petro contributes little here, so this is mainly guest-carried, but it underpins her 'change is personal' stance.
How it developed: It begins as a side remark from change-management practitioners (2017–2018). By the EMBA episodes (2020–2022) it has become the central lesson: self-mastery and choosing your response.
The thread's title and description are AI-written, drawn from the episodes below. The quotations are verbatim from the episode audio, each linked to the moment it was said.
What was said
“sometimes I think we're change managers because we, we find change very difficult. I certainly do.”
“you can take anything from any person, but not his choice, which really was the ultimate freedom.”
“recognize that the hardest person to change is yourself.”
“life is not about a success story. Life is about dealing with failure,”
“I can't improve the human condition without improving myself first.”
“between a stimulus and response, there's a pause, and in that pause lies our opportunity to choose our response, and in that choice lies our opportunity for growth.”
Episodes in this thread
- #001 Tom Marsicano | Change in a production environment 18 November 2017
- #002 Dr. Ryk Croukamp | Logotherapy and self-awareness in change 25 January 2018
- #003 Dr. Barbara Trautlein | Change Intelligence (CQ) 25 March 2018
- #004 George Lee Sye | Intersection between change management and business improvement 30 March 2018
- #017 Chris Breen | Finding what matters most 19 July 2020
- #019 Gordon Wilson | Purpose as a driver for human behaviour 4 April 2022
- #020 Chris Smith | Finding happiness at work 16 June 2022