What does it take to deal with change proactively?

Keep your eyes wide open.

If you want to make change work for you instead of against you, there are three basic things that you need to do:

• Understand the nature of the challenge posed by change
• Be ruthless about your own knowledge and assumptions
• Act (rather than react) to what you discover

And one final point. Change doesn’t rest, and neither can you. Riding the wave of change doesn’t mean making some changes today. It means changing habits of mind, decision making processes, and the culture of your organization.