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Knowledge@Wharton

If you visit Knowledge@Wharton’s website (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu), by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, you may note the categories of articles listed on the left-hand side of the page. While there is great information in every category and one could spend hours reading and learning, I have always been struck by the category – Leadership and Change – and how it associates change with leadership.

Leadership and Change

Perhaps I could expound more on change and I have already written several articles about leadership and change, but for this post, I just want to share with you a viewpoint of change from Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor in AD 161-180, in his phenomenal work, Meditations:

“Is any man afraid of change? Why, what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And cast thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? And canst thou be nourished unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Dost thou not see then that for thy self also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?”

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