Learn and Change

In this new world, everyone is talking about changing, changing and changing. That’s what the new US President Barack Obama always mentions in his speech statements too. It’s not strange to hear “changing” under this dynamic environment, that is, why paradigm shift takes place in our lecture of Organizational Learning in Business Enterprises.

Learning, it seems a word that I always “do” in stead of thinking its implicit meanings. In the lecture, I tried to think of meanings of “learning”. “Widen horizons, develop skills, experience, and add values to myself” are something that I wrote down. It’s funny to hear something like “from zero to one”; it’s really simple but very “instructive”. We should thank Louis for sharing this funny idea.

In the past, people always did routine works like following a list of rules or steps, etc. They were not willing to change their old ideas until they came to difficulties or obstacles. But now, people tend to change. People aware of being open-minded towards changing can help them to improve their behavior and to overcome their stubborn habits. They’re willing to accept new ideas or even think of innovation. That’s why learning facilitates changing. Or on the other hand, changing facilitates learning at the same time.

To survive in this competitive edge, not only individuals like you and me, corporate or business enterprises are also learned to change. Here is an example about Asian Television Ltd. (ATV). After a recent change in internal shareholding, ATV tries to stir up a keen competition with her direct competitor, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). Starting from tomorrow night, the ATV Late News broadcast time period would change from 11:15 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. as to capture more audiences. ATV hopes this can help enhancing her information service. Her competitor, TVB indicated that the Late News would be arranged 30 minutes earlier, also it would be lengthened from tomorrow night on.

We can see ATV is changing. ATV tries to build up its new image or impression to audiences and it tries to catch up with the audiences’ flavor. Changing traditional habits of audience is what ATV does this time; it’s innovative to change as to outstand from its old shadow which was being passive against TVB. Who knows this change would do anything on ATV audience rating? A surprise? No change? Or even a worse case? Actually we still don’t get an answer but at least we know ATV learns to change.

Entering the realm of transformation and renewal, do you want to be passive or active to learn and change? Absolutely you should be the active one; otherwise you will be fall behind the pace of this dynamic world. And, “You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.” (Denis Waitley)

News Reference:

"ATV調晚間新聞撼TVB高收視時段", Sing Tao News, 1st Feb 2009

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090131/3/agjv.html